Musical Instruments, Material Culture, and Meaning: Toward an Ethno-Organology

No. 144, June 2004

Special Issue on “Musical Instruments, Material Culture, and Meaning: Toward an Ethno-Organology” (亞洲樂器、物質文化與意義：民族樂器學芻議)

Henry Johnson. "Preface" (English version). Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 144 (2004.6): 1-3.

"The idea for this volume came about during the conference in Rio de Janeiro in 2001 of the International Council for Tradition Music. Tsai Tsan-huang 蔡燦煌 and I presented papers in a session chaired by Margaret Kartomi, and a post-presentation discussion focused on musical instruments as meaningful objects of material culture. Both Tsai and I have undertaken research on instruments using anthropological approaches to material culture, and our aim in initiating this volume was to bring together articles on Asian instruments that stress the social dimensions of instrument meaning. Musical instruments are often studied in terms of their structure or acoustic properties, but these material objects commonly have intense meaning in a variety of ways in the lives of those who make and play them; they also often have particular cultural significance for other cultural insiders."

Wang Ying-fen. "Preface" (Chinese version). Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 144 (2004.6): 5-6.

Henry Johnson. "Introduction" (緒論). Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 144 (2004.6): 7-38.

Margaret J. Kartomi. “'If a Man Can Kill a Buffalo with One Blow He Can Play a Rapa’i Pasè': How the Frame Drum Expresses Facets of Acehnese Identity" (如果一個人能將牛一擊致死，那麼他就能演奏Rapa’i Pasè: 框型鼓如何展現阿丘人自我認同的種種面向). Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 144 (2004.6): 39-88.

Roger Vetter. "Resonating Meaningful Relationships: The Gamelan K.K. Kancilbelik of the Sultan's Palace of Yogyakarta, Java" (饒富意味的關係迴響: 爪哇日惹蘇丹宮廷的甘美朗樂隊K.K. Kancilbelik). Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 144 (2004.6): 89-126.

Gregory D. Booth. "Changing Symbols: The Indigenization of South Asian Wedding Bands" (轉變的象徵符號:南亞婚禮樂隊的本土化). Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 144 (2004.6): 127-62.

Tsai Tsan-huang. "The Entangled Relationship between Life Stories and Musical Instruments: A Case-Study of the Qin" (人與樂器間不可分割的關係: 琴的個案研究). Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 144 (2004.6): 163-93.

Yetkin Özer. "The Significance of a Musical Instrument in Understanding Urbanization: The Case of the Bağlama in Turkey" (樂器對於理解都市化現象所提供的重要意涵: 以土耳其的Bağlama為例). Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 144 (2004.6): 195-223.

Henry Johnson. "The Koto and a Culture of Difference: Musical Instruments and Performance Identity in Japan" (日本箏與區分的文化：日本的樂器與演奏認同). Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 144 (2004.6): 225-262.

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