Member book, Weintraub and Barendregt (Eds.), Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities
I would like to announce the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017). Consisting of a lengthy introduction and 14 case studies, this edited volume demonstrates how female performers supported, challenged, and transgressed gendered norms in the entertainment industries of China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Placing women’s voices in social and historical contexts, the authors explore salient discourses, representations, meanings, and politics of “voice” in Asian popular music. Female performers were not merely symbols of times that were rapidly changing. Nor were they simply the personification of global historical changes. Female entertainers, positioned at the margins of intersecting fields of activities, created something hitherto unknown: they were artistic pioneers of new music, new cinema, new forms of dance and theater, and new behavior, lifestyles, and morals. They were active agents in the creation of local performance cultures, of a newly emerging mass culture, and the rise of a region-wide and globally oriented entertainment industry.
Edited by Andrew N. Weintraub and Bart Barendregt
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1
Re-Vamping Asia: Women, Music, and Modernity in Comparative Perspective
Andrew N. Weintraub and Bart Barendregt
PART I
Triumph and Tragedies of the Colonized Voice: Colonial Modernity, Commodification, and Circulation of Women’s Voices
CHAPTER 2
Acoustic Ladies: Mediating Audiovisual Modernity in Early German and Chinese Talkies
Yiman Wang
CHAPTER 3
On Becoming Nora: Transforming the Voice and Place of the Sing-Song Girl through Zhou Xuan
Yifen Beus
CHAPTER 4
Malay Women Singers of Colonial Malaya: Voicing Alternative Gender Identity and Modernity
Tan Sooi Beng
CHAPTER 5
The “Comfort Women” and the Voices of East Asian Modernity
Joshua D. Pilzer
PART II
Modern Stars and Modern Lives: Nation, Memory, and the Politics of Gender
CHAPTER 6
Diva Misora Hibari as Spectacle of Postwar Japan’s Modernity
Christine R. Yano
CHAPTER 7
Titiek Puspa: Gendered Modernity in 1960s and 1970s Indonesian Popular Music
Andrew N. Weintraub
CHAPTER 8
The Remarkable Career of L. R. Eswari
Amanda Weidman
PART III
Silenced Voices and Forbidden Modernities: Censorship, Morality, and National Identity
CHAPTER 9
Gendered and Censored Modernity: Two Female Singers and Their Music in South Korea
Soojin Kim
CHAPTER 10
Princess Siti and the Particularities of Post-Islamist Pop
Bart Barendregt
CHAPTER 11
Googoosh’s Voice: An Iranian Icon in Silence and Song
Farzaneh Hemmasi
PART IV
Body Politics and Discourses of Femininity: Image, Sexuality, and the Body
CHAPTER 12
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
CHAPTER 13
Beyond Black and Gray: Portraits and Scenes of Javanese Singer Waldjinah in Indonesian Popular Print Media
Russell P. Skelchy
CHAPTER 14
Mainstreaming Dance Music and Articulating Femininity: South Korean Dance Divas in the 1980s
Hee-sun Kim
CHAPTER 15
The Ideal Idol: Making Music with Hatsune Miku, the “First Sound of the Future” 320
Jennifer Milioto Matsue
For further information:
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9840-9780824869861.aspx
ISBN: 978-0-8248-6986-1
372 pp.
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