Contents

pp 5-6

List of Tables and Illustrations

pp 7-12

List of Audio-visual Resources

pp 13-14

Introduction

pp 15-22

Southeast Asia

pp 23-24

1 - Creating Places through the Soundscape: A Kalinga Peace Pact Celebration

pp 25-44

2 - Sundanese Dance as Practice or Spectacle: It’s All Happening at the Zoo

pp 45-70

3 - Malay-Islamic Zapin: Dance and Soundscapes from the Straits of Malacca

pp 71-84

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

pp 85-102

5 - To Sing the Rice in Tanjung Bunga (Eastern Flores), Indonesia

pp 103-132

Madagascar

pp 133-134

6 - Tromba Children, Maresaka, and Postcolonial Malady in Madagascar

pp 135-152

Oceania

pp 153-154

7 - Fractals in Melanesian Music

pp 155-168

8 - ‘Singing Spirits And The Dancing Dead’: Sonic Geography, Music and Ritual Performance in a Melanesian Community

pp 169-192

9 - Breaking the Tikol? Code-switching, Cassette Culture and a Lihirian Song Form

pp 193-204

10 - Fijian Sigidrigi and the Performance of Social Hierarchies

pp 205-222

11 - Tau’a’alo: Paddling Songs as Cultural Metaphor

pp 223-240

12 - Disconnected Connections: Puerto Rican Diasporic Musical Identity in Hawai’i

pp 241-260

13 - Performing Austronesia in the Twenty-first Century: A Rapa Nui Perspective on Shared Culture and Contact

pp 261-276

14 - ‘To Sing is to be Happy’: The Dynamics of Contemporary Maori Musical Practices

pp 277-294

15 - Australian Indigenous Choices of Repertoire in Community CDs/DVDs: Recording and Reclaiming Torres Strait Islander Sacred and Secular Music

pp 295-318

Contributors

pp 319-322

Index

pp 323-336

Publications Series

pp 337-338