The first complete music reference for the region, this volume covers all the nations of modern Southeast Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Singap

The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revi

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The critical importance of past for the present--of music histories in local and global forms--asserts itself. The history of world music, as each chapter makes