Situated along centuries-old global trade routes, North Sumatra has long been a place of global c... more Situated along centuries-old global trade routes, North Sumatra has long been a place of global confluence. My dissertation examines the ways in which musical performance among the Toba Batak people, a group living in the island's interior and in its large cities, reflects this legacy. The cultural and musical history of the Toba has been affected by successive waves of foreign influence from India, the Middle-East and the West. Dutch colonialism and German missionary activity transformed Toba culture and society in the nineteenth century, and Indonesian independence resulted in Toba incorporation into a larger national identity. This dissertation examines the multiple musical genres that are present in Toba performances, illuminating the broader contours of Toba history. The interaction between Toba past and present emerges in the culture's multiple performance traditions, composed of many genres with roots in varied histories. On a broad level, this dissertation aims to show the ways that old and new histories participate in global trajectories by using Toba musical performance as a case study. On a smaller level, it uses the personal experiences of informant and researcher to demonstrate how these larger histories are relevant in day-to-day lives.Ph.D.Communication and the ArtsCultural anthropologyMusicSocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/125621/2/3208429.pd
This article draws on the recent boom in Indian Ocean studies to build a framework for registerin... more This article draws on the recent boom in Indian Ocean studies to build a framework for registering the Indian Ocean in ethnomusicology. We show how the human experiences of movement across the Indian Ocean expanse have conditioned the musical traditions of ports and islands, and we put ethnomusicological writings on places like Zanzibar and Oman into dialogue with those from Mauritius and Singapore. We address how ethnomusicology’s area studies paradigm has inhibited musical studies of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR); the specter of comparative musicology; and the perils of modern Indian Ocean populations in light of postcolonial ethnonationalisms.Untuk membangun pengertian Lingkup Samudra India (Indian Ocean Studies) dalam bidang ethnomusikologi, artikel ini bersumber dari kumpulan studi sarjana-sarjana ilmu sosial yang merintis penelitian ini. Pengalaman migrasi manusia, dari pulau ke pulau dan pelabuhan ke pelabuhan, telah membentuk kebudayaan bermusik yang sudah lama dalam lingkup...
Situated along centuries-old global trade routes, North Sumatra has long been a place of global c... more Situated along centuries-old global trade routes, North Sumatra has long been a place of global confluence. My dissertation examines the ways in which musical performance among the Toba Batak people, a group living in the island's interior and in its large cities, reflects this legacy. The cultural and musical history of the Toba has been affected by successive waves of foreign influence from India, the Middle-East and the West. Dutch colonialism and German missionary activity transformed Toba culture and society in the nineteenth century, and Indonesian independence resulted in Toba incorporation into a larger national identity. This dissertation examines the multiple musical genres that are present in Toba performances, illuminating the broader contours of Toba history. The interaction between Toba past and present emerges in the culture's multiple performance traditions, composed of many genres with roots in varied histories. On a broad level, this dissertation aims to show the ways that old and new histories participate in global trajectories by using Toba musical performance as a case study. On a smaller level, it uses the personal experiences of informant and researcher to demonstrate how these larger histories are relevant in day-to-day lives.Ph.D.Communication and the ArtsCultural anthropologyMusicSocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/125621/2/3208429.pd
This article draws on the recent boom in Indian Ocean studies to build a framework for registerin... more This article draws on the recent boom in Indian Ocean studies to build a framework for registering the Indian Ocean in ethnomusicology. We show how the human experiences of movement across the Indian Ocean expanse have conditioned the musical traditions of ports and islands, and we put ethnomusicological writings on places like Zanzibar and Oman into dialogue with those from Mauritius and Singapore. We address how ethnomusicology’s area studies paradigm has inhibited musical studies of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR); the specter of comparative musicology; and the perils of modern Indian Ocean populations in light of postcolonial ethnonationalisms.Untuk membangun pengertian Lingkup Samudra India (Indian Ocean Studies) dalam bidang ethnomusikologi, artikel ini bersumber dari kumpulan studi sarjana-sarjana ilmu sosial yang merintis penelitian ini. Pengalaman migrasi manusia, dari pulau ke pulau dan pelabuhan ke pelabuhan, telah membentuk kebudayaan bermusik yang sudah lama dalam lingkup...
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