Mohd. Anis Md. Nor

Voice of the Millennium

Asian Dance

Kendra Stepputat

11 Performing community, identity and change: the Chinese dragon leaps to the beat -- 12 Gendang beleq: the negotiation of a music/dance form in Lombok, Indonesia -- 13 The Orak Lawoi pelacak festival: how music and movement connects an erstwhile semi-nomadic people to their vanishing history, environment and culture -- 14 Moving music: the performing arts, space and travel among the Sama Dilaut -- Index

Choreomusicology in Maritime Southeast Asia

Sounding the Dance, Moving the Music

In contrast to the scholarly attention given to the research of dance and music in other South-East Asian countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, Malaysian performance traditions are rarely the focus of academic studies. Indeed, this is the first book to have been published on zapin, a Malaysian performing art which extends to Singapore and East Sumatra. The syncretic combination of Arab and Malay performance elements in this dance is explained in detail with the extensive use of dance notations and music transcriptions. The book argues that the transposition of zapin from a communal level to a national one involved not only a change in the context in which the dance is performed but also a change in its structure and cultural meaning. Finally, the book traces the historical evolution of the Malay dance form from a participatory art to one that is passively observed, and investigates the music and dance structure of the genre.

Zapin, Folk Dance of the Malay World

Issues on Dance Hybridity

Dancing Mosaic

Joseph Gonzales (Choreographer)

Topics in Dance Studies

Independence & Identity

Revathi Murugappan

Global and Local Dance in Performance

Randai Dance of Minangkabau Sumatra with Labanotation Scores

Creating Dance in Asia Pacific

Dialogues in Dance Discourse

Mohd. Anis Md. Nor

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