Distant Drums And Thunderous Cannon: Sounding Authority In Traditional Malay Society
Pre-modern Malay society was intensely oral and aural, and the texts that are now read were always intended for group recitation and performance. Studies of auditory history in other societies have emphasised that in the past, sounds were experienced differently from the way they are heard today....
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| description | Pre-modern Malay society was intensely oral and aural, and the texts that are
now read were always intended for group recitation and performance. Studies of
auditory history in other societies have emphasised that in the past, sounds were
experienced differently from the way they are heard today. At the very basic level,
thunder—the voice of the heavens—established the benchmark and the basis for
comparison for awe-inspiring sounds that humans could attempt to replicate,
notably in the beating of drums and the firing of cannon. Together with the noseflute, the drum is the oldest and most indigenous Malay instrument, and the drums
that were included in royal regalia were accorded personalities of their own. |
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| spelling | usm.eprints-404702018-05-21T06:34:49Z http://eprints.usm.my/40470/ Distant Drums And Thunderous Cannon: Sounding Authority In Traditional Malay Society Andaya, Barbara Watson P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) Pre-modern Malay society was intensely oral and aural, and the texts that are now read were always intended for group recitation and performance. Studies of auditory history in other societies have emphasised that in the past, sounds were experienced differently from the way they are heard today. At the very basic level, thunder—the voice of the heavens—established the benchmark and the basis for comparison for awe-inspiring sounds that humans could attempt to replicate, notably in the beating of drums and the firing of cannon. Together with the noseflute, the drum is the oldest and most indigenous Malay instrument, and the drums that were included in royal regalia were accorded personalities of their own. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/40470/1/BarbaraAndaya-DistantDrum.pdf Andaya, Barbara Watson (2011) Distant Drums And Thunderous Cannon: Sounding Authority In Traditional Malay Society. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 7 (2). pp. 17-33. ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243 http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/BarbaraAndaya-DistantDrum.pdf |
| spellingShingle | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) Andaya, Barbara Watson Distant Drums And Thunderous Cannon: Sounding Authority In Traditional Malay Society |
| title | Distant Drums And Thunderous Cannon:
Sounding Authority In Traditional Malay
Society |
| title_full | Distant Drums And Thunderous Cannon:
Sounding Authority In Traditional Malay
Society |
| title_fullStr | Distant Drums And Thunderous Cannon:
Sounding Authority In Traditional Malay
Society |
| title_full_unstemmed | Distant Drums And Thunderous Cannon:
Sounding Authority In Traditional Malay
Society |
| title_short | Distant Drums And Thunderous Cannon:
Sounding Authority In Traditional Malay
Society |
| title_sort | distant drums and thunderous cannon sounding authority in traditional malay society |
| topic | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) |
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