Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia (2020)
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Howard, K., Ingram, C., Ong, M. Y., McLaren, A., Liu, L., Roche, G., Kim, H., Maliangkay, R., de Ferranti, H., Terauchi, N., Finchum-Sung, H., Day, K., & Teoh, Y.-M. (2020). K. Howard, & C. Ingram (Eds.). Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326295

Presence Through Sound narrates and analyses, through a range of case studies on selected musics of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Tibet, some of the many ways in which music and ‘place’ intersect and are interwoven with meaning in East Asia. It ex... Read More about Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia.

Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry (2011)
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Howard, K., & Kasmambetov, S. (2011). Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry. Brill/Global Oriental. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004218048

Today, the Kyrgyz Manas is one of the most celebrated epic heroic poems in the world. At the turn of the new millennium it was appointed a UNESCO ‘Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind’, signalling its global importance. It sits... Read More about Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry.