Selected papers from two conferences, convened as part of the Voices of Asian Modernities Project (VAMP), held September 4-6, 2013, in Leiden, the Netherlands, and April 4-6, 2014, at the University of Pittsburgh. Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-347) and index.
Contents:
Re-vamping Asia : women, music, and modernity in comparative perspective / Andrew N. Weintraub and Bart Barendregt -- Acoustic ladies : mediating audiovisual modernity in early German and Chinese talkies / Yiman Wang -- On becoming Nora : transforming the voice and place of the sing-song girl through Zhou Xuan / Yifen Beus -- Malay women singers of colonial Malaya : voicing alternative gender identity and modernity / Tan Sooi Beng -- The "comfort women" and the voices of East Asian modernity / Joshua D. Pilzer -- Diva Misora Hibari as spectacle of postwar Japan's modernity / Christine R. Yano -- Titiek Puspa : gendered modernity in 1960s and 1970s Indonesian popular music / Andrew N. Weintraub -- The remarkable career of L.R. Eswari / Amanda Weidman -- Gendered and censored modernity : two female singers and their music in South Korea / Soojin Kim -- Princess Siti and the particularities of post-Islamist pop / Bart Barendregt -- Googoosh's voice : an Iranian icon in silence and song / Farzaneh Hemmasi -- 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) / Ricardo D. Trimillos -- Beyond black and gray : portraits and scenes of Javanese singer Waljinah in Indonesian popular print media / Russell P. Skelchy -- Mainstreaming dance music and articulating femininity : South Korean dance divas in the 1980s / Hee-sun Kim -- The ideal idol : making music with Hatsune Miku, the "first sound of the future" / Jennifer Milioto Matsue.
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