Theatre and music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946 : sounding modernities /: sounding modernities. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: MeLé yamomo.
• Authors: Yamomo, MeLê
• Contents: Overture 11 The Sound of Modernity.-Sound(ing)s of Modernity.-Preludes of Noise.-Listening to Modernity.-Transposing to Modernity.-Aesthetic Autonomy.-Cultural Commodification.-An Anthropology of Sound.-2 The Tolling of an Early Global City: Genealogiesof Cultural Modernities.-Orchestrating an Archaic Global City.-The Manila-Acapulco Galleon Sounding Route.-Under the Sound of the Bell.-Polyphonic Society.-Enharmonic Entanglements.-Playing by Ear: Acoustic Epistemologies.-Institutionalising Music and Theatre.-Conclusion.-3 De Todo un Poco: Cultural Consumption in ModernGlobal Manila, 1848–1898.-De Todo un Poco.-Global Sounds, Local VoicesOpera.-Zarzuela.-Listening Through the Gaps of Modernity.-Conclusion.-Entr'acte: Sound Junctures of Global Modernity.-Nation as a Modernist Project.-Modernity and Globalisation.-4 Staging Modernity, Auditioning the Republic: Music.-Theatre and the Soni of the Nation.-The First Republic in Asia.-Performing the Republic.-A Dreamed Alliance? Or the First Tagalog Operaas an Exercise in Diplomatic Claim for Sovereignty.-Bayan Ko: Sarsuwela and Composing the Sonus of the Nation.-Conclusion.-5 Modernities in Conflict: The Military Band BetwixtEmpires and Nations.-Regimenting Colonial Sound.-Between Archaic Empire and the Nascent Nation.-US Brass Imperialism and the Philippine Constabulary BandPerforming the Empire at St. Louis.-Taft's Own: The Little Brown Men on Tour.-Conclusion6 Echoing Modernities: Modern Globalisationand the Manila Musicians.-Global Modernities and Sonic Migration.-Echoing Modernities: The Manila Musicians Across AsiaThe Shanghai Municipal Band.-The Sta. Cecilia Band in Singapore.-Into the Twentieth Century.-Conclusion.-Coda.-References.-Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 792.0959916; Theater -- Philippines -- Manila; Music -- Philippines -- Manila -- History and criticism; Modernism (Music); Music and globalization; Philippines -- Civilization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319691763
• Related ISBNs: 9783319691756
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