CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Sounding Waves–Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER 1. From the Rice Harvest to “Bohemian Rhapsody”: Diachronic Modernity in Angklung Performance 19
6. CHAPTER 2. Soundtracks for the Masses: Transmediating India in Dangdut Films of Indonesia 39
7. CHAPTER 3. Localizing Global Sound Worlds in Bali and Lombok 65
8. CHAPTER 4. “Molihua”: Culture and Meaning of China’s Most Well-Traveled Folksong 81
9. CHAPTER 5. Finding a Niche for the Avant-Garde Outside the Academy in the Early 2000s: A Radical Moment in Korea’s Fusion Music 100
10. CHAPTER 6. Singing Policemen, Dancing Firemen: Alliance Building and Interethnic Remasculinization in Post–World War II Hawai‘i 119
11. CHAPTER 7. Kenny Endo and a Dream: From Interzones to Solidarities 149
12. CHAPTER 8. Performing Paradise: Hawaiian ‘Ukulele in Japanese Settings 170
13. CHAPTER 9. Hawaiian and American Pasts Confronting a Native Hawaiian and a Globalized Present: Reworking Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow” by Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole 187
14. Contributors 205
15. Index 209