Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities 9780824874193
The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture
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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1. Re-Vamping Asia: Women, Music, and Modernity in Comparative Perspective
PART I. Triumph and Tragedies of the Colonized Voice: Colonial Modernity, Commodification, and Circulation of Women’s Voices
CHAPTER 2. Acoustic Ladies: Mediating Audiovisual Modernity in Early German and Chinese Talkies
CHAPTER 3. On Becoming Nora: Transforming the Voice and Place of the Sing-Song Girl through Zhou Xuan
CHAPTER 4. Malay Women Singers of Colonial Malaya: Voicing Alternative Gender Identity and Modernity
CHAPTER 5. The “Comfort Women” and the Voices of East Asian Modernity
PART II. Modern Stars and Modern Lives: Nation, Memory, and the Politics of Gender
CHAPTER 6. Diva Misora Hibari as Spectacle of Postwar Japan’s Modernity
CHAPTER 7. Titiek Puspa: Gendered Modernity in 1960s and 1970s Indonesian Popular Music
CHAPTER 8. The Remarkable Career of L. R. Eswari
PART III. Silenced Voices and Forbidden Modernities: Censorship, Morality, and National Identity
CHAPTER 9. Gendered and Censored Modernity: Two Female Singers and Their Music in South Korea
CHAPTER 10. Princess Siti and the Particularities of Post-Islamist Pop
CHAPTER 11. Googoosh’s Voice: An Iranian Icon in Silence and Song
PART IV. Body Politics and Discourses of Femininity: Image, Sexuality, and the Body
CHAPTER 12. Enacting Modernity through Voice, Body, and Gender: Filipina Singers from the Close of the Philippine-American War to the Onset of Martial Law (1913–1972)
CHAPTER 13. Beyond Black and Gray: Portraits and Scenes of Javanese Singer Waldjinah in Indonesian Popular Print Media
CHAPTER 14. Mainstreaming Dance Music and Articulating Femininity: South Korean Dance Divas in the 1980s
CHAPTER 15. The Ideal Idol: Making Music with Hatsune Miku, the “First Sound of the Future”
Contributors
Index
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1. Re-Vamping Asia: Women, Music, and Modernity in Comparative Perspective
PART I. Triumph and Tragedies of the Colonized Voice: Colonial Modernity, Commodification, and Circulation of Women’s Voices
CHAPTER 2. Acoustic Ladies: Mediating Audiovisual Modernity in Early German and Chinese Talkies
CHAPTER 3. On Becoming Nora: Transforming the Voice and Place of the Sing-Song Girl through Zhou Xuan
CHAPTER 4. Malay Women Singers of Colonial Malaya: Voicing Alternative Gender Identity and Modernity
CHAPTER 5. The “Comfort Women” and the Voices of East Asian Modernity
PART II. Modern Stars and Modern Lives: Nation, Memory, and the Politics of Gender
CHAPTER 6. Diva Misora Hibari as Spectacle of Postwar Japan’s Modernity
CHAPTER 7. Titiek Puspa: Gendered Modernity in 1960s and 1970s Indonesian Popular Music
CHAPTER 8. The Remarkable Career of L. R. Eswari
PART III. Silenced Voices and Forbidden Modernities: Censorship, Morality, and National Identity
CHAPTER 9. Gendered and Censored Modernity: Two Female Singers and Their Music in South Korea
CHAPTER 10. Princess Siti and the Particularities of Post-Islamist Pop
CHAPTER 11. Googoosh’s Voice: An Iranian Icon in Silence and Song
PART IV. Body Politics and Discourses of Femininity: Image, Sexuality, and the Body
CHAPTER 12. Enacting Modernity through Voice, Body, and Gender: Filipina Singers from the Close of the Philippine-American War to the Onset of Martial Law (1913–1972)
CHAPTER 13. Beyond Black and Gray: Portraits and Scenes of Javanese Singer Waldjinah in Indonesian Popular Print Media
CHAPTER 14. Mainstreaming Dance Music and Articulating Femininity: South Korean Dance Divas in the 1980s
CHAPTER 15. The Ideal Idol: Making Music with Hatsune Miku, the “First Sound of the Future”
Contributors
Index
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