Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Performance

by Deborah Wong

Sounding the Center is an in-depth look at the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual honoring teachers of music and dance, Deborah Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge, and performance that underlies the classical court arts.Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, Wong lays out the ritual in the way it is enacted, the foods and objects involved, and the people who perform it, emphasizing the way the performers themselves discuss and construct aspects of the ceremony.

336 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2001

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