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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 ...

In January and February 2014, the authors went on a fieldtrip to Sumatra’s West Coast with Padang as its centre aiming at discovering and analysing traces of Indian music practices within modern Sumatran society. This ...

The Sri Lankan version of the double-reed oboe, the horanawa, has been and is still important to Sinhala Buddhists since it symbolizes “spiritualty” and “locality” in the Sri Lankan cultural context. Usually, the Buddhist ...

This paper is to analyze different cases from the Malay world, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar with historical methods as well as from the perspective of current musical practice. Constructions of historical awareness and some ...