Document Type
Contribution to Book
Source Publication
Instrumental Lives : Musical Instruments, Material Culture, and Social Networks in East and Southeast Asia
Link to Published Version
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c045929
Publication Date
7-23-2024
Editor
Helen Rees
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
City
Urbana
ISBN
9780252056901 ; 9780252045929
First Page
52
Last Page
80
Department
Music
Recommended Citation
Yamin, Tyler, "The Cålåpitå Past the “Dull Edge” of Extinction: A Shaggy Dog Story of Repatriation and Refusal in Bali" (2024). Faculty Contributions to Books. 328.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/fac_books/328
Publisher Statement
"The musical instruments of East and Southeast Asia enjoy increasing recognition as parts of humanity's intangible cultural heritage. Helen Rees edits a collection that offers vibrant new ways to link these objects to their materials of manufacture, the surrounding environment, the social networks they form and help sustain, and the wider ethnic or national imagination. Rees organizes the essays to reflect three angles of inquiry. The first section explores the characteristics and social roles of various categories of instruments, including the koto and an extinct Balinese wooden clapper. In section two, essayists focus on the life stories of individual instruments ranging from an heirloom Chinese qin to end-blown flutes in rural western Mongolia. Essays in the third section examine the ethics and other issues that surround instrument collections, but also show how collecting is a dynamic process that transforms an instrument's habitat and social roles. Original and expert, Instrumental Lives brings a new understanding of how musical instruments interact with their environments and societies." -- $c Provided by publisher.