Margaret Sarkissian
Biographic Data
| ID | 144363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Sarkissian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarkissian |
| SIGNATURE | SARKISSIAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Living Ethnomusicology: Paths and Practices
Living Ethnomusicology: Paths and Practices
Living Ethnomusicology: Paths and Practices
Punks, Monks and Politics: Authenticity in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, edited by Julian C. H. Lee and Marco Ferrarese
Early in the introduction, Julian C. H. Lee and Marco Ferrarese twice ask, ‘Why is authenticity sought after?’ (ix and xi). They promise to address (rather than answer) this question ‘by examining
The CM is On The Way: Reflections on Malacca-Portuguese Identity as Malaysia Turns 50
An ethnographic account of one day in the life of the Portuguese Settlement in Malacca, Malaysia, as the community prepares for a visit from the Chief Minister of the state of Malacca. The essay describes the day of the Chief Minister's visit (August 14, 2007) as it unfolded in the Portuguese Settlement and reflects on what the event tells us about the village, its residents, and their place in Malaysian society at a landmark moment, the 50th ann…
Negotiating the Personal and Professional: Ethnomusicologistsl and Uncomfortable Truths
The panel, "Negotiating the Personal and Professional: Ethnomusicologists and Uncomfortable Truths," presented at the Forty-third ICTM World Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, grew out of informal conversations common among ethnomusicologists. As practitioners in our discipline, we are involved in complex webs of experience, relationships, and representations focused around music, broadly defined. Our work is inherently social and, when in the fie…
Margaret Sarkissian
Religion Never Had it so good: Contemporary Nasyid and the Growth of Islamic Popular Music in Malaysia
The Taliban in Afghanistan and the hardline clergy in Iran might regard them as blasphemous, but in Malaysia Islamic pop groups are a hit, even with fundamentalist politicians. Nasyid groups, as they are known, are winning awards for using their talents to bring people closer to Islam. (MGW 13 June 1999
Being Portuguese in Malacca: The politics of folk culture in Malaysia
This paper explores what it means to be “Portuguese” in Malacca today and illustrates ways in which the journey has been complicated by issues of class tension, colonial positioning, post-colonial nation building, and modern economic development. The focal point of the analysis is a gala dinner organized by the Malacca Portuguese Eurasian Association in 2002. This constituted a rare moment in which community members made a public political statem…
D'Albuquerque's Children: Performing Tradition in Malaysia's Portuguese Settlement
When the Portuguese seafarer Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the bustling port of Malacca in 1511, he effectively gained control of the entire South China Sea spice trade. Although Portuguese dominance lasted only 130 years, its legacy lies at the heart of a burgeoning tourist attraction on the outskirts of the city, in which performers who believe they are the descendants of swashbuckling Portuguese conquerors encapsulate their history in a cult…
A Viagem des Sons/The Journey of Sounds
Playing Portuguese: Constructing Identity in Malaysia's Portuguese Community
This paper is concerned with one of the less familiar outposts of the Portuguese diaspora-Malaysia. Almost five centuries after the great Portuguese seafarer Afonso de Albuquerque sailed into Malacca, there is still a small village on the outskirts of the city known as the "Portuguese Settlement" (Kampung Portugis or Kampung Serani2 in Malay). Its residents are described variously as Malaysian Portuguese, Portuguese Eurasians, Luso-Malays, Orang …
Trumpet
Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West
Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience
A Viagem dos Sons [The Journey of Sounds]
Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings
For Prespa Albanians, both at home in Macedonia and in the diaspora, the most significant events of any year are wedding ceremonies. During days and weeks of festivities, wedding celebrants interact largely through singing, defining and renegotiating the structure of their social world and establishing a profound cultural touchstone for Prespa communities around the world. This account of Prespa weddings combines photographs, song texts and recor…
Tradition, tourism, and the cultural show: Malaysia's diversity on display
This article explores the cultural show as a site of creative cultural production. It focuses on cultural shows performed at national, state, and grassroots levels in Malaysia (with an emphasis on the city of Malacca). No longer performed strictly for tourists, the cultural show has become both a primary icon of national multiculturalism and a forum in which meaning is contested and identity negotiated. On the one hand, the government uses cultur…
Cultural Chameleons: Portuguese Eurasian Strategies for Survival in Post-colonial Malaysia
This article documents the shifting identity over time of a single Malaysian ethnic minority, the Portuguese Eurasian community of Malacca. Through a close examination of three pivotal historical moments (1952, 1969, and 1995), it shows how cultural phenomena (in this case, music and dance) play key roles in the projection of new public images
Victorian bands and their dissemination in the colonies
This morning I unintentionally stumbled across the annual Cherry Blossom Parade in Washington, DC. It was probaly little different than any other American public parade, full of decorated floats and oversized balloons interspersed between uniformed marching bands from high schools all over the country. What caught my attention was the 'foreign' element in the parade - three groups that represented Japan, land of the cherry blossom. Two of these g…
Sinhalese Girl" Meets "Aunty Annie: Competing Expressions of Ethnic Identity in the Portuguese Settlement, Melaka, Malaysia
La population portugaise de Melaka en Malaisie a construit une identite ethnique positive autour de la musique et de la danse. Deux chansons sont tres populaires, « Jinkly Nona » et « Ti'Anika ». La premiere reprend le rythme « branyo » (« joget » en malaisien) et le son « dondang sayang » (« mata kantiga » pour les Portugais). Trois categories de quatrains ont ete degagees : « cantigas de amigo », « cantigas de mal-dizer », et « cantigas indifer…
Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine
Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings
For Prespa Albanians, both at home in Macedonia and in the diaspora, the most significant events of any year are wedding ceremonies. During days and weeks of festivities, wedding celebrants interact largely through singing, defining and renegotiating the structure of their social world and establishing a profound cultural touchstone for Prespa communities around the world. This account of Prespa weddings combines photographs, song texts and recor…
Tradition, tourism, and the cultural show: Malaysia's diversity on display
This article explores the cultural show as a site of creative cultural production. It focuses on cultural shows performed at national, state, and grassroots levels in Malaysia (with an emphasis on the city of Malacca). No longer performed strictly for tourists, the cultural show has become both a primary icon of national multiculturalism and a forum in which meaning is contested and identity negotiated. On the one hand, the government uses cultur…
Victorian bands and their dissemination in the colonies
This morning I unintentionally stumbled across the annual Cherry Blossom Parade in Washington, DC. It was probaly little different than any other American public parade, full of decorated floats and oversized balloons interspersed between uniformed marching bands from high schools all over the country. What caught my attention was the 'foreign' element in the parade - three groups that represented Japan, land of the cherry blossom. Two of these g…
Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine
Being Portuguese in Malacca: The politics of folk culture in Malaysia
This paper explores what it means to be “Portuguese” in Malacca today and illustrates ways in which the journey has been complicated by issues of class tension, colonial positioning, post-colonial nation building, and modern economic development. The focal point of the analysis is a gala dinner organized by the Malacca Portuguese Eurasian Association in 2002. This constituted a rare moment in which community members made a public political statem…
Cultural Chameleons: Portuguese Eurasian Strategies for Survival in Post-colonial Malaysia
This article documents the shifting identity over time of a single Malaysian ethnic minority, the Portuguese Eurasian community of Malacca. Through a close examination of three pivotal historical moments (1952, 1969, and 1995), it shows how cultural phenomena (in this case, music and dance) play key roles in the projection of new public images
Sinhalese Girl" Meets "Aunty Annie: Competing Expressions of Ethnic Identity in the Portuguese Settlement, Melaka, Malaysia
La population portugaise de Melaka en Malaisie a construit une identite ethnique positive autour de la musique et de la danse. Deux chansons sont tres populaires, « Jinkly Nona » et « Ti'Anika ». La premiere reprend le rythme « branyo » (« joget » en malaisien) et le son « dondang sayang » (« mata kantiga » pour les Portugais). Trois categories de quatrains ont ete degagees : « cantigas de amigo », « cantigas de mal-dizer », et « cantigas indifer…
Religion Never Had it so good: Contemporary Nasyid and the Growth of Islamic Popular Music in Malaysia
The Taliban in Afghanistan and the hardline clergy in Iran might regard them as blasphemous, but in Malaysia Islamic pop groups are a hit, even with fundamentalist politicians. Nasyid groups, as they are known, are winning awards for using their talents to bring people closer to Islam. (MGW 13 June 1999
Playing Portuguese: Constructing Identity in Malaysia's Portuguese Community
This paper is concerned with one of the less familiar outposts of the Portuguese diaspora-Malaysia. Almost five centuries after the great Portuguese seafarer Afonso de Albuquerque sailed into Malacca, there is still a small village on the outskirts of the city known as the "Portuguese Settlement" (Kampung Portugis or Kampung Serani2 in Malay). Its residents are described variously as Malaysian Portuguese, Portuguese Eurasians, Luso-Malays, Orang …
Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine
Sinhalese Girl" Meets "Aunty Annie: Competing Expressions of Ethnic Identity in the Portuguese Settlement, Melaka, Malaysia
La population portugaise de Melaka en Malaisie a construit une identite ethnique positive autour de la musique et de la danse. Deux chansons sont tres populaires, « Jinkly Nona » et « Ti'Anika ». La premiere reprend le rythme « branyo » (« joget » en malaisien) et le son « dondang sayang » (« mata kantiga » pour les Portugais). Trois categories de quatrains ont ete degagees : « cantigas de amigo », « cantigas de mal-dizer », et « cantigas indifer…
Cultural Chameleons: Portuguese Eurasian Strategies for Survival in Post-colonial Malaysia
This article documents the shifting identity over time of a single Malaysian ethnic minority, the Portuguese Eurasian community of Malacca. Through a close examination of three pivotal historical moments (1952, 1969, and 1995), it shows how cultural phenomena (in this case, music and dance) play key roles in the projection of new public images
Victorian bands and their dissemination in the colonies
This morning I unintentionally stumbled across the annual Cherry Blossom Parade in Washington, DC. It was probaly little different than any other American public parade, full of decorated floats and oversized balloons interspersed between uniformed marching bands from high schools all over the country. What caught my attention was the 'foreign' element in the parade - three groups that represented Japan, land of the cherry blossom. Two of these g…
Tradition, tourism, and the cultural show: Malaysia's diversity on display
This article explores the cultural show as a site of creative cultural production. It focuses on cultural shows performed at national, state, and grassroots levels in Malaysia (with an emphasis on the city of Malacca). No longer performed strictly for tourists, the cultural show has become both a primary icon of national multiculturalism and a forum in which meaning is contested and identity negotiated. On the one hand, the government uses cultur…
Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings
For Prespa Albanians, both at home in Macedonia and in the diaspora, the most significant events of any year are wedding ceremonies. During days and weeks of festivities, wedding celebrants interact largely through singing, defining and renegotiating the structure of their social world and establishing a profound cultural touchstone for Prespa communities around the world. This account of Prespa weddings combines photographs, song texts and recor…
Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience
A Viagem dos Sons [The Journey of Sounds]
Trumpet
Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West
Playing Portuguese: Constructing Identity in Malaysia's Portuguese Community
This paper is concerned with one of the less familiar outposts of the Portuguese diaspora-Malaysia. Almost five centuries after the great Portuguese seafarer Afonso de Albuquerque sailed into Malacca, there is still a small village on the outskirts of the city known as the "Portuguese Settlement" (Kampung Portugis or Kampung Serani2 in Malay). Its residents are described variously as Malaysian Portuguese, Portuguese Eurasians, Luso-Malays, Orang …
D'Albuquerque's Children: Performing Tradition in Malaysia's Portuguese Settlement
When the Portuguese seafarer Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the bustling port of Malacca in 1511, he effectively gained control of the entire South China Sea spice trade. Although Portuguese dominance lasted only 130 years, its legacy lies at the heart of a burgeoning tourist attraction on the outskirts of the city, in which performers who believe they are the descendants of swashbuckling Portuguese conquerors encapsulate their history in a cult…
A Viagem des Sons/The Journey of Sounds
Religion Never Had it so good: Contemporary Nasyid and the Growth of Islamic Popular Music in Malaysia
The Taliban in Afghanistan and the hardline clergy in Iran might regard them as blasphemous, but in Malaysia Islamic pop groups are a hit, even with fundamentalist politicians. Nasyid groups, as they are known, are winning awards for using their talents to bring people closer to Islam. (MGW 13 June 1999
Being Portuguese in Malacca: The politics of folk culture in Malaysia
This paper explores what it means to be “Portuguese” in Malacca today and illustrates ways in which the journey has been complicated by issues of class tension, colonial positioning, post-colonial nation building, and modern economic development. The focal point of the analysis is a gala dinner organized by the Malacca Portuguese Eurasian Association in 2002. This constituted a rare moment in which community members made a public political statem…
Margaret Sarkissian
Negotiating the Personal and Professional: Ethnomusicologistsl and Uncomfortable Truths
The panel, "Negotiating the Personal and Professional: Ethnomusicologists and Uncomfortable Truths," presented at the Forty-third ICTM World Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, grew out of informal conversations common among ethnomusicologists. As practitioners in our discipline, we are involved in complex webs of experience, relationships, and representations focused around music, broadly defined. Our work is inherently social and, when in the fie…
The CM is On The Way: Reflections on Malacca-Portuguese Identity as Malaysia Turns 50
An ethnographic account of one day in the life of the Portuguese Settlement in Malacca, Malaysia, as the community prepares for a visit from the Chief Minister of the state of Malacca. The essay describes the day of the Chief Minister's visit (August 14, 2007) as it unfolded in the Portuguese Settlement and reflects on what the event tells us about the village, its residents, and their place in Malaysian society at a landmark moment, the 50th ann…
Punks, Monks and Politics: Authenticity in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, edited by Julian C. H. Lee and Marco Ferrarese
Early in the introduction, Julian C. H. Lee and Marco Ferrarese twice ask, ‘Why is authenticity sought after?’ (ix and xi). They promise to address (rather than answer) this question ‘by examining
Living Ethnomusicology: Paths and Practices
Living Ethnomusicology: Paths and Practices
Living Ethnomusicology: Paths and Practices
Art (15 works) · History (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Asian Studies and History (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Philippine History and Culture (6 works)