Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946

<div>Overture 1</div><div>1 The Sound of Modernity.-Sound(ing)s of Modernity.-Preludes of Noise.-Listening to Modernity.-Transposing to Modernity.-Aesthetic Autonomy.-Cultural Commodification.-An Anthropology of Sound.-2 The Tolling of an Early Global City: Genealogies</div><div>of Cultural Modernities.-Orchestrating an Archaic Global City.-The Manila-Acapulco Galleon Sounding Route.-Under the Sound of the Bell.-Polyphonic Society.-Enharmonic Entanglements.-Playing by Ear: Acoustic Epistemologies.-Institutionalising Music and Theatre.-Conclusion.-3 De Todo un Poco: Cultural Consumption in Modern&nbsp;Global Manila, 1848–1898.-De Todo un Poco.-Global Sounds, Local Voices&nbsp;Opera.-Zarzuela.-Listening Through the Gaps of Modernity.-Conclusion.-Entr’acte: Sound Junctures of Global Modernity.-Nation as a Modernist Project.-Modernity and Globalisation.-4 Staging Modernity, Auditioning the Republic: Music.-Theatre and the Soni of the Nation.-The First Republic in Asia.-Performing the Republic.-A Dreamed Alliance? Or the First Tagalog Opera</div><div>as an Exercise in Diplomatic Claim for Sovereignty.-Bayan Ko: Sarsuwela and Composing the Sonus of the Nation.-Conclusion.-5 Modernities in Conflict: The Military Band Betwixt</div><div>Empires and Nations.-Regimenting Colonial Sound.-Between Archaic Empire and the Nascent Nation.-US Brass Imperialism and the Philippine Constabulary Band&nbsp;Performing the Empire at St. Louis.-Taft’s Own: The Little Brown Men on Tour.-Conclusion&nbsp;</div><div>6 Echoing Modernities: Modern Globalisation&nbsp;and the Manila Musicians.-Global Modernities and Sonic Migration.-Echoing Modernities: The Manila Musicians Across Asia&nbsp;</div><div>The Shanghai Municipal Band.-The Sta. Cecilia Band in Singapore.-Into the Twentieth Century.-Conclusion.-Coda.-References.-Index&nbsp;</div>