Sean Williams

Reviews

2007

Book review of Lee's Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent (Chris Lydgate) in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 18/2:172-174.

2005

Book review of Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java (Andrew N. Weintraub) in Asian Music 36/2:109-113.

2004

Book review of Gamelan Gong Kebyar: the Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music (Michael Tenzer) in The World of Music 46/1:133-135.

2003

Book review of The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It (Margaret Kartomi) in Notes 59/3.

Video review of Wayang Golék: Performing Arts of Sunda (West Java) in Asian Music 34/2:154-156.

Book review of Ar Chreag i Lár na Farraige: Amhráin agus Amhránaithe i dToraigh [On a Rock in the Center of the Ocean: Songs and Singing in Tory] (Lillis Ó Laoire) in Ethnomusicology 47/3:384.

Book reviews of ‘Twas Only an Irishman’s Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920 (William H.A.Williams) and How Shall We Sing in A Foreign Land: Catholic Music of the Antebellum Irish (Robert R. Grimes) in Ethnomusicology 47/1:127-130.

2002

Audio review of Wayang Golek: The Sound and Celebration of Sundanese Puppet Theater (Andrew N. Weintraub) in Yearbook for Traditional Music 34:223.

2001

Audio review of Tembang Sunda: Classical Music from West Java in Yearbook for Traditional Music 33:210-211.

Book review of Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur (Michael Bakan) in Asian Music 33/1:127-129.

1998

Audio reviews of Betawi and Sundanese Music of the North Coast of Java and Java: Tembang Sunda in Yearbook for Traditional Music 30:199-201.

1997

Book review of Gamelan Stories: Tantrism, Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java (Judith Becker) in Journal of Asian Studies 56/1:246-247.

Book review of Knowing Music, Making Music: Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction (Benjamin Brinner) in Yearbook forTraditional Music 29:153-154.

1996

Audio review of Lolongkrang in Asian Music 27/1:163-164.

Audio reviews of Betawi and Sundanese Music of the North Coast of Java and Night Music of West Sumatra in The World of Music 37/3:114-115.

1992

Book reviews of Popular Music Perspectives (B. Lee Cooper) and The End-of-the-Century Party (Steve Redhead) in Notes 49/2:623-24.

Book review of Sundanese Music in the Cianjuran Style: Anthropological and Musicological Aspects of Tembang Sunda (Wim van Zanten) in Yearbook for Traditional Music 24:159-160.

1990

Video review of Indonesia 2: Java in Asian Music 24/2:157-158.

Audio review of Songs Before Dawn: Gandrung Banyuwangi; Indonesian Popular Music: Kroncong, Dangdut and Langgam Jawa; and Music from the Outskirts of Java in Yearbook for Traditional Music 25:177-179.

Concert review of “Sunda: from Village to City, Festival of Indonesia in Performance” in Antara Kita, Bulletin of the Indonesian Studies Committee, Association for Asian Studies 30:23-27.

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