Applies, for the first time, sound culture/sound history in analysing cultural history in Asia
Takes a productively transnational approach
Explores the intersections of sound culture, theatre history, performance and media studies

Autorentext
meLê yamomo is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He was a research fellow at the International Research Center 'Interweaving Performance Cultures' in Berlin and at the Global Theatre Histories Research Center in Munich. He completed his PhD in Theatre Studies and Musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany.

Inhalt
Overture 11 The Sound of Modernity.-Sound(ing)s of Modernity.-Preludes of Noise.-Listening to Modernity.-Transposing to Modernity.-Aesthetic Autonomy.-Cultural Commodification.-An Anthropology of Sound.-2 The Tolling of an Early Global City: Genealogiesof Cultural Modernities.-Orchestrating an Archaic Global City.-The Manila-Acapulco Galleon Sounding Route.-Under the Sound of the Bell.-Polyphonic Society.-Enharmonic Entanglements.-Playing by Ear: Acoustic Epistemologies.-Institutionalising Music and Theatre.-Conclusion.-3 De Todo un Poco: Cultural Consumption in Modern Global Manila, 18481898.-De Todo un Poco.-Global Sounds, Local Voices Opera.-Zarzuela.-Listening Through the Gaps of Modernity.-Conclusion.-Entr'acte: Sound Junctures of Global Modernity.-Nation as a Modernist Project.-Modernity and Globalisation.-4 Staging Modernity, Auditioning the Republic: Music.-Theatre and the Soni of the Nation.-The First Republic in Asia.-Performing the Republic.-A Dreamed Alliance? Or the First Tagalog Operaas an Exercise in Diplomatic Claim for Sovereignty.-Bayan Ko: Sarsuwela and Composing the Sonus of the Nation.-Conclusion.-5 Modernities in Conflict: The Military Band BetwixtEmpires and Nations.-Regimenting Colonial Sound.-Between Archaic Empire and the Nascent Nation.-US Brass Imperialism and the Philippine Constabulary Band Performing the Empire at St. Louis.-Taft's Own: The Little Brown Men on Tour.-Conclusion 6 Echoing Modernities: Modern Globalisation and the Manila Musicians.-Global Modernities and Sonic Migration.-Echoing Modernities: The Manila Musicians Across Asia The Shanghai Municipal Band.-The Sta. Cecilia Band in Singapore.-Into the Twentieth Century.-Conclusion.-Coda.-References.-Index