Sounding the Dance, Moving the Music: Choreomusicological Perspectives on Maritime Southeast Asian Performing Arts [Hardcover]

Performing arts in most parts of Maritime Southeast Asia are seen as an entity, where music and dance, sound and movement, acoustic and tactile elements intermingle and complement each other. Although this fact is widely known and referenced, most scholarly works in the performing arts so far have either focused on music ? or dance rather than treating the two in combination. The authors in this book look at both aspects in performance, moreover, they focus explicitly on the interrelation between the two, on both descriptive-analytical and metaphorical levels. The book includes diverse examples of regional performing art genres from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. All case studies are composed from the perspective of the relatively new approach and field of ethno-choreomusicology. This particular compilation gives an exemplary overview of various phenomena in movement-sound relations, and offers for the first time a thorough study of the phenomenon that is considered essential for the performing arts in Maritime Southeast Asia - the inseparability of movement and sound.

List of Figures  List of Tables  Notes on Contributors  Preface  1. Understanding Performance in Maritime Southeast Asia: Re-thinking Paradigms and Discourses, an Introduction (Ricardo D. Trimillos)  2. Sonic and Tactile Dimensions of Sundanese Dance (Henry Spiller)  3. The Balinese Kecak  An Exemplification of Sonic and Visual (Inter-)relations (Kendra Stepputat)  4. Persistent Mutualisms: Energizing the Symbiotic Relationship Between Balinese Dancer and Drummer (Made Mantle Hood)  5. Cari&.Cari&.Cari!: Filling the Interstices of Music and Dance in Zapin Johor (Mohd Anis Md Nor)  6. Necessary (Re)Unions: Revisiting anlS2