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Questioning Methods of Nollywood Studies (2016)
Book Chapter
Agina, A. (2016). Questioning Methods of Nollywood Studies. In O. Okome, & M. Okhakhu (Eds.), Media Studies in Nigeria: Genesis and Detours (295-310). Stirling-Horden Publishers

Contemporary Cambodian Buddhist Traditions: Seen from the Past (2016)
Book Chapter
Thompson, A. (2016). Contemporary Cambodian Buddhist Traditions: Seen from the Past. In M. Jerryson (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199362387.013.32

Attentive to the oxymoron of its title, this chapter looks for insight into the contemporary moment through an extended examination of traditions, or symptoms, rooted in the past. Accordingly, the chapter explores a series of transformative periods o... Read More about Contemporary Cambodian Buddhist Traditions: Seen from the Past.

SamulNori: Sustaining an Emerging Korean Percussion Tradition (2016)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2016). SamulNori: Sustaining an Emerging Korean Percussion Tradition. In H. Schippers, & C. Grant (Eds.), Sustainable Futures for Musical Cultures: An Ecological Perspective (239-270). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780190259075.003.0009

What music should be sustained? Global efforts to preserve “traditional” music tend to reflect performance practices that survive among aging musicians or in archived recordings, photographs, and other documents. Reconstruction may be attempted as sy... Read More about SamulNori: Sustaining an Emerging Korean Percussion Tradition.

The Pyu: an ancient civilization of upper Myanmar (2016)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A., & Kyaing, U. W. (2016). The Pyu: an ancient civilization of upper Myanmar. In S. A. Murphy (Ed.), Cities and Kings: Treasures from Ancient Myanmar (22-33). Asian Civilisations Museum

Cultural Landscapes of Later Myanmar (2016)
Book Chapter
Khine Pyae Sone, & Tan, H. (2016). Cultural Landscapes of Later Myanmar. In S. Murphy (Ed.), Cities and Kings. Ancient Treasures from Myanmar (58-73). Asian Civilisations Museum

Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition Cities and Kings. Ancient Treasures from Myanmar. Organised by the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore in collaboration with the Department of Archaeology and National Museum, Ministry of Cultu... Read More about Cultural Landscapes of Later Myanmar.

Incidental Learning of Melodic Structure of North Indian Music (2016)
Journal Article
Rohrmeier, M., & Widdess, R. (2017). Incidental Learning of Melodic Structure of North Indian Music. Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 41(5), 1299-1327. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12404

Musical knowledge is largely implicit. It is acquired without awareness of its complex rules, through interaction with a large number of samples during musical enculturation. Whereas several studies explored implicit learning of mostly abstract and l... Read More about Incidental Learning of Melodic Structure of North Indian Music.

Representing 'otherness' in African popular media: Chinese characters in Ethiopian video-films (2016)
Journal Article
Jelowski, A., & Thomas, M. W. (2017). Representing 'otherness' in African popular media: Chinese characters in Ethiopian video-films. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 29(1), 63-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1241704

This article focuses on the recent phenomenon of Ethiopian films that prominently feature Chinese characters. As the success of these films relies on representing a stereotypical Chinese ‘Other’, and in reference to China’s ever-growing presence in A... Read More about Representing 'otherness' in African popular media: Chinese characters in Ethiopian video-films.

Beyond yet Toward Representation: Diasporic Artists and Craft as Conceptualism in Contemporary Southeast Asia (2016)
Journal Article
Corey, P. (2016). Beyond yet Toward Representation: Diasporic Artists and Craft as Conceptualism in Contemporary Southeast Asia. The Journal of Modern Craft, 9(2), 161-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496772.2016.1205279

This article focuses on craft as a conceptual mediation within selected artworks by Dinh Q. Lê (b. 1968, Vietnam) and Sopheap Pich (b. 1971, Cambodia), two of the most internationally successful artists to represent Vietnam and Cambodia in the global... Read More about Beyond yet Toward Representation: Diasporic Artists and Craft as Conceptualism in Contemporary Southeast Asia.