4. The Contemporary Musical Culture of the Chinese in Sabah, Malaysia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. List of Tables and Illustrations (by Chapter) 7
4. List of Audio-visual Resources (by Chapter) 13
5. Introduction. Birgit Abels 15
6. SOUTHEAST ASIA
7. 1. Creating Places through the Soundscape: A Kalinga Peace Pact Celebration 25
8. 2. Sundanese Dance as Practice or Spectacle: It’s All Happening at the Zoo 45
9. 3. Malay-Islamic Zapin: Dance and Soundscapes from the Straits of Malacca 71
10. 4. The Contemporary Musical Culture of the Chinese in Sabah, Malaysia 85
11. 5. To Sing the Rice in Tanjung Bunga (Eastern Flores), Indonesia 103 Dana Rappoport 103
12. MADAGASCAR
13. 6. Tromba Children, Maresaka, and Postcolonial Malady in Madagascar 135
14. OCEANIA
15. 7. Fractals in Melanesian Music 155
16. 8. ‘Singing Spirits And The Dancing Dead’: Sonic Geography, Music and Ritual Performance in a Melanesian Community 169
17. 9. Breaking the Tikol? Code-switching, Cassette Culture and a Lihirian Song Form 193
18. 10. Fijian Sigidrigi and the Performance of Social Hierarchies 205
19. 11. Tau’a’alo: Paddling Songs as Cultural Metaphor 223
20. 12. Disconnected Connections. Puerto Rican Diasporic Musical Identity in Hawai’i 241
21. 13. Performing Austronesia in the Twenty-first Century: A Rapa Nui Perspective on Shared Culture and Contact 261
22. 14. ‘To Sing is to be Happy’: The Dynamics of Contemporary Maori Musical Practices 277
23. 15. Australian Indigenous Choices of Repertoire in Community CDs/DVDs: Recording and Reclaiming Torres Strait Islander Sacred and Secular Music 295
24. Contributors 319
25. Index 323