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U·I[ Iij Iiiliiiiillll " "", Graz U·I[�iij�iiiliiiiillll 0184.9998 Studies in InternationalPerfonnance published in association with the International Federation of Theatre Research General Editors: Janelle Reinelt and Brian Singleton Culture and performance cross borders constantly, and not just the borders that define nations. In this new series, scholars of performance produce interactions between and among nations and cultures as well as genres, identities and imaginations. International in the largest sense, the books collected in the Studies in International Perfonnance series display a range of historical, theoretical and critical approaches to the panoply of performances that make up the global surround. The series embraces 'Culture' which is institutional as well as improvised, underground or alternate, and treats 'Performance' as either intercultural or transnational as well as intracultural within nations. Titles include: Khalid Amine and Marvin Carlson THE THEATRES OF MOROCCO, ALGERIA AND TUNISIA Performance Traditions of the Maghreb Patrick Anderson and Jisha Menon (editors) VIOLENCE PERFORMED Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict Elaine Aston and Sue-Ellen Case STAGING INTERNATIONAL FEMINISMS Christopher Balme PACIFIC PERFORMANCES Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas Matthew Isaac Cohen PERFORMING OTHERNESS Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905-1952 Susan Leigh Foster (editor) WORLDING DANCE Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo PERFORMANCE AND COSMOPOLITICS Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia Helena Grehan PERFORMANCE, ETHICS AND SPECTATORSHIP IN A GLOBAL AGE Judith Hamera DANCING COMMUNITIES Performance, Difference, and Connection in the Global City James Harding and Cindy Rosenthal (editors) THE RISE OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES Rethinking Richard Schecher's Broad Spectrum Silvija Jestrovic and Yana Meerzon (editors) PERFORMANCE, EXILE AND 'AMERICA' Ola Johansson COMMUNITY THEATRE AND AIDS Ketu Katrak CONTEMPORARY INDIAN DANCE New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora Sonja Arsham Kuftinec THEATRE, FACILITATION, AND NATION FORMATION IN THE BALKANS AND Acoustic Interculturalism MIDDLE EAST Daphne P. Lei ALTERNATIVE CHINESE OPERA IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION Listening to Performance Performing Zero (editor) Carol Martin Marcus Cheng Chye Tan THE DRAMATURGY OF THE REAL ON THE WORLD STAGE Y. Meerzon PERFORMING EXILE, PERFORMING SELF Drama, Theatre, Film Alan Read THEATRE, INTIMACY & ENGAGEMENT The Last Human Venue Shannon Steen RACIAL GEOMETRIES OF THE BLACK ATLANTIC, ASIAN PACIFIC AND AMERICAN THEATRE Marcus Tan ACOUSTIC INTERCULTURALISM Listening to Performance Joanne Tompkins UNSETTLING SPACE Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre Maurya Wickstrom PERFORMANCE IN THE BLOCKADES OF NEOLIBERALISM Thinking the Political Anew S. E. Wilmer NATIONAL THEATRES IN A CHANGING EUROPE Evan Darwin Winet INDONESIAN POSTCOLONIAL THEATRE Spectral Genealogies and Absent Faces Forthcoming titles: Adrian Kear THEATRE AND EVENT Studies in International Performance Series Standing Order ISBN 978-1-4039-4456-6 (hardback) 978-1-4039-4457-3 (paperback) (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address palgrave below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, macmillan Hampshire RG21 6XS, England © Marcus Cheng Chye Tan 2012 Contents All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this * publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any List of Figures vii licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London ECl N 8TS. Series Preface ix Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. Acknowledgements xi The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Introduction: the Topography of an Acoustic Interculturalism 1 First published 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 1 The Performativity of Sound and the Soundscapes Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers of Culture 29 Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. 2 Acoustic Mimesis: Ethical Cadence and Sonic Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin's Press LLC, Violence in Ta mbours Sur La Digue 57 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. 3 (Echo)Locating Other Shakespeares: an Aesthetics Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout of Pop and the Ear of the Other 89 the world. 4 Listening in/to Asia: Ong Keng Sen's Desdemona Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United and the Polyphonies of Asia 133 States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-0--230--35416-6 5 'If Music Be the Food of Love': 'Fourth World' This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from Universals in Ong Keng Sen's Awaking 165 fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and Conclusion: After Authenticity: Naming the Intercultural 197 manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of t�e country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Notes 215 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data References 229 Tan, Marcus Cheng Chye. Acoustic interculturalism : listening to performance I Marcus Cheng Index 245 Chye Tan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0--230--35416-6 1. Intercultural communication in the performing arts. 2. Sounds­ Anthropological aspects. 3. Music in the theater. 4. Music-Social aspects. 5. Performing arts-Asia. I. Title. PN2039.T36 2012 792.01-dc23 2012011344 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne v List of Figures 2.1 Ariane Mnouchkine's Tambours Sur La Digue (2002): Heroine Duan beats the chang'go drums 70 3.1 Musical score for 'The Windmills of Your Mind' (ILes moulins de mon c�ur') from the movie The Thomas Crown Affair. Music composed by Michel Legrand and English lyrics written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman 107 3.2 Yukio Ninagawa's Twelfth Night (2009): Act 1 Scene I, Orsino muses about music and love 117 4.1 Ong Keng Sen's Desdemona (2000): Mona (played by Claire Wong) beside musician and music director Jang Jae Hyo during the p'ansori sequence 145 5.1 Ong Keng Sen's Awaking (2008): Musicians of the Globe (left), the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (right), the Northern Kunqu Theatre Opera troupe (front of platform), and Wei Chun Rong as Du Liniang (on platform) 171 vii Series Preface The 'Studies in International Performance' series was initiated in 2004 on behalf of the International Federation for Theatre Research, by Janelle Reinelt and Brian Singleton, successive Presidents of the Federation. Their aim was, and still is, to call on performance schol­ ars to expand their disciplinary horizons to include the comparative study of performances across national, cultural, social and political borders. This is necessary not only in order to avoid the homogeniz­ ing tendency of national paradigms in performance scholarship, but also in order to engage in creating new performance scholarship that takes account of and embraces the complexities of transnational cultural production, the new media, and the economic and social consequences of increasingly international forms of artistic expres­ sion. Comparative studies (especially when conceived across more than two terms) can value both the specifically local and the broadly conceived global forms of performance practices, histories and social formations. Comparative aesthetics can challenge the limitations of national orthodoxies of art criticism and current artistic knowledge. In formalizing the work of the Federation's members through rigor­ ous and innovative scholarship this Series aims to make a significant contribution to an ever-changing project of knowledge creation. JANELLE REINELT AND BRIAN SINGLETON International Federation for Theatre Research Federation Internationale pour la Recherche Theatrale ix Acknowledgements This book represents the culmination of several years of thinking about the subject of interculturalism and the performativity of sound. More significantly, it stands as a testimony to the kindness and support of many people without which such an endeavour would not have been possible. My deepest gratitude goes most specially to Professor Brian Sing­ leton who was not only a perceptive and patient academic advisor, but also an encouraging and supportive friend. His insights and expe­ rience have been invaluable in helping to shape much of this book. It is also with his strong encouragement and faith in my writing and critical abilities that this book could find a privileged place in his series co-edited with Professor Janelle Reinelt to whom I would also here like to extend my gratitude. I would also like to thank Professor Yong
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