Overview
- Applies, for the first time, sound culture/sound history in analysing cultural history in Asia
- Takes a productively transnational approach
- Explores the intersections of sound culture, theatre history, performance and media studies
Part of the book series: Transnational Theatre Histories (TTH)
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This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and the improvement of transcontinental travel and worldwide communication. This allowed modern modes of theatre and music consumption to instigate the uniformization of cultural products and processes, while simultaneously fragmenting societies into distinct identities, institutions, and nascent nation-states.
Taking the performing bodies of migrant musicians as the locus of sound, this book argues that the global movement of acoustic modernities was replicated and diversified through its multiple subjectivities within empire, nation, and individual agencies. It traces the arrival of European travelling music and theatre companies in Asia which re-casted listening into an act of modern culturalconsumption, and follows the migration of Manila musicians as they engaged in the modernization project of the neighboring Asian cities.
Taking the performing bodies of migrant musicians as the locus of sound, this book argues that the global movement of acoustic modernities was replicated and diversified through its multiple subjectivities within empire, nation, and individual agencies. It traces the arrival of European travelling music and theatre companies in Asia which re-casted listening into an act of modern culturalconsumption, and follows the migration of Manila musicians as they engaged in the modernization project of the neighboring Asian cities.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
meLê yamomo is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He was a research fellow at the International Research Center 'Interweaving Performance Cultures' in Berlin and at the Global Theatre Histories Research Center in Munich. He completed his PhD in Theatre Studies and Musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946
Book Subtitle: Sounding Modernities
Authors: meLê yamomo
Series Title: Transnational Theatre Histories
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69176-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69175-6Published: 02 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09876-6Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69176-3Published: 20 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-5893
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5907
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 267
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre History, National/Regional Theatre and Performance, Global/International Theatre and Performance