Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946
Sounding Modernities
Authors: Yamomo, MeLê
Free Preview- 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
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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 cultural consumption, and follows the migration of Manila musicians as they engaged in the modernization project of the neighboring Asian cities. - About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Overture
Pages 1-13
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Chapter 1 The Sound of Modernity
Pages 15-53
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Chapter 2 The Tolling of an Early Global City: Genealogies of Cultural Modernities
Pages 55-84
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Chapter 3 De Todo un Poco: Cultural Consumption in Modern Global Manila, 1848–1898
Pages 85-119
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Entr’acte: Sound Junctures of Global Modernity
Pages 121-135
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946
- Book Subtitle
- Sounding Modernities
- Authors
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- MeLê Yamomo
- Series Title
- Transnational Theatre Histories
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-69176-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-69176-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-69175-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-09876-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 267
- Number of Illustrations
- 9 b/w illustrations
- Topics
