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Making Waves - Traveling Musics in Hawai'i, Asia, and the Pacific (Paperback)
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Making Waves - Traveling Musics in Hawai'i, Asia, and the Pacific (Paperback)
Series: Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
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Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing
national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing
pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical
products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via
musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes), satellite broadcasting,
digital downloads, and streaming. The introductory chapter by the
volume editors develops two framing metaphors: "traveling musics"
and "making waves." The wave-making metaphor illuminates the ways
that traveling musics traverse flows of globalization and
migration, initiating change, and generating energy of their own.
Each of the nine contributors further examines music-its songs,
makers, instruments, aurality, aesthetics, and images-as it crosses
oceans, continents, and islands. In the process of landing in new
homes, music interacts with older established cultural
environments, sometimes in unexpected ways and with surprising
results. They see these traveling musics in Hawai'i, Asia, and the
Pacific as "making waves"-that is, not only riding flows of
globalism, but instigating ripples of change. What is the nature of
those ripples? What constitutes some of the infrastructure for the
wave itself? What are some of the effects of music landing on,
transported to, or appropriated from distant shores? How does the
Hawai'i-Asia-Pacific context itself shape and get shaped by these
musical waves? The two poetic and evocative metaphors allow the
individual contributors great leeway in charting their own course
while simultaneously referring back to the influence of their
mentor and colleague Ricardo D. Trimillos, whom they identify as
"the wave maker." The volume attempts to position music as at once
ritual and entertainment, esoteric and exoteric, tradition and
creativity, within the cultural geographies of Hawai'i, Asia, and
the Pacific. In doing so, they situate music at the very core of
global human endeavors.
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