Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946: Sounding Modernities
This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and the improvement of transcontinental travel and worldwide communication. This allowed modern modes of theatre and music consumption to instigate the uniformization of cultural products and processes, while simultaneously fragmenting societies into distinct identities, institutions, and nascent nation-states.

Taking the performing bodies of migrant musicians as the locus of sound, this book argues that the global movement of acoustic modernities was replicated and diversified through its multiple subjectivities within empire, nation, and individual agencies. It traces the arrival of European travelling music and theatre companies in Asia which re-casted listening into an act of modern culturalconsumption, and follows the migration of Manila musicians as they engaged in the modernization project of the neighboring Asian cities.
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Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946: Sounding Modernities
This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and the improvement of transcontinental travel and worldwide communication. This allowed modern modes of theatre and music consumption to instigate the uniformization of cultural products and processes, while simultaneously fragmenting societies into distinct identities, institutions, and nascent nation-states.

Taking the performing bodies of migrant musicians as the locus of sound, this book argues that the global movement of acoustic modernities was replicated and diversified through its multiple subjectivities within empire, nation, and individual agencies. It traces the arrival of European travelling music and theatre companies in Asia which re-casted listening into an act of modern culturalconsumption, and follows the migration of Manila musicians as they engaged in the modernization project of the neighboring Asian cities.
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Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946: Sounding Modernities

Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946: Sounding Modernities

by meLï yamomo
Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946: Sounding Modernities

Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946: Sounding Modernities

by meLï yamomo

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This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and the improvement of transcontinental travel and worldwide communication. This allowed modern modes of theatre and music consumption to instigate the uniformization of cultural products and processes, while simultaneously fragmenting societies into distinct identities, institutions, and nascent nation-states.

Taking the performing bodies of migrant musicians as the locus of sound, this book argues that the global movement of acoustic modernities was replicated and diversified through its multiple subjectivities within empire, nation, and individual agencies. It traces the arrival of European travelling music and theatre companies in Asia which re-casted listening into an act of modern culturalconsumption, and follows the migration of Manila musicians as they engaged in the modernization project of the neighboring Asian cities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783030098766
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 01/25/2019
Series: Transnational Theatre Histories
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Pages: 267
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

meLê yamomo is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He was a research fellow at the International Research Center 'Interweaving Performance Cultures' in Berlin and at the Global Theatre Histories Research Center in Munich. He completed his PhD in Theatre Studies and Musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany.

Table of Contents

Overture 1
1 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: Genealogies
of 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 Modern Global Manila, 1848–1898.-De Todo un Poco.-Global Sounds, Local Voices Opera.-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 Opera
as 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 Betwixt
Empires and Nations.-Regimenting Colonial Sound.-Between Archaic Empire and the Nascent Nation.-US Brass Imperialism and the Philippine Constabulary Band Performing the Empire at St. Louis.-Taft’s Own: The Little Brown Men on Tour.-Conclusion
6 Echoing Modernities: Modern Globalisation and the Manila Musicians.-Global Modernities and Sonic Migration.-Echoing Modernities: The Manila Musicians Across Asia
The Shanghai Municipal Band.-The Sta. Cecilia Band in Singapore.-Into the Twentieth Century.-Conclusion.-Coda.-References.-Index
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