Freshman Seminar 33q: Global Pop Music

11. Southeast Asia

NOTE: These lists are intended to be representative only and to pique curiosity. These basic sources can help you narrow down a topic and find useful keyword search terms to try in Hollis and databases (Sections 2 and 3).

Selected online:

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online: Southeast Asia (Volume 4)

Archive of World Music (Harvard University), located in the Loeb Music Library houses many commercial world music recordings of Indonesia and other Asian countries (find in Hollis) and also archival collections.

Asia (University of Washington Libraries ethnomusicology portal)

Dance, Music and Theaters of Bali (Bali & Indonesia on the Net)
Popular in nature but good introductory information - verify, verify, verify.

World and Traditional Music: Southeast Asia (British Library Sound Archive)

Selected print:

Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia
ed by Timothy Craig and Richard King
Location 1: Loeb Music Harvard Depository DS509.3 .G56 2002
Location 2: Widener WID-LC DS12 .G56 2002bx
Location 3: Harvard-Yenching (W) DS12 .G56 2002 

Speak it Louder: Asian Americans Making Music [SE Asian diaspora]
by Deborah Wong
Location 1: Loeb Music ML3560.A85 W66 2004 [+ compact disc]
Location 2: Widener Harvard Depository ML3560.A85 W66 2004



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