In this study, the transmission of some essentials in music tradition from two different places in Asia,
namely India and Vietnam, is taken as a metaphor to be further applied on cultural and social analysis in order ...
This study presents a very small community within the Sinhalese context of Sri Lanka in light of academic interest:
the Kaffirs. Their communal history reaches far back into colonial times, and they did not distinguish ...
Meddegoda, Chinthaka Prageeth(Studia Instrumentorum Musicae Popularis, 2023)
The discrimination of instrumental sound in the evaluation and appreciation of
Amaradheva’s (born in 1927, passed away in 2016) performances lead
to a big gap between praising vocal achievements and using his unique ...
The author’s efforts to draw a cartography of music practices in Sri Lanka and proposing terms such as musical gift, musical
giving, and sonic generosity using the views and practices of Sri Lankan drumming, ritual ...
Sri Lanka is an island with prevalently drumming traditions. Each region has its own classified drums, drumming repertoires, and performance practices kept alive over many centuries. Although, there were significant changes ...
As a mainstream Buddhist country since 300 BC Sri Lankan clergy did for a long time period not permit string instruments as Buddhist sources said listening or playing vina (lute) may cause rebirth and hinder the way to ...
This paper is dedicated to physically moving and emotionally moved singers who combine non-vocal embodiments as an essential content of what their singing conveys. The terms “movement of singers” and the “singers being ...