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Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Performance (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Deborah Anne Wong is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Performance (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) about?

<p><i>Sounding the Center</i> is an in-depth look at the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual honoring teachers of music and dance, Deborah Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge, and performance that underlies the classical court arts.</p> <p>Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, Wong lays out the ritual in detail: the way it is enacted, the foods and objects involved, and the people who perform it, emphasizing the way the performers themselves discuss and construct aspects of the ceremony.</p>

Author

Deborah Anne Wong

Publisher

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226905853

Subjects

Sociology, Music, Anthropology