Provides the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia, showcasing cutting-edge research conducted by scholars whose methods and perspectives draw from such diverse fields as anthropology, Asian studies, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and film studies.

Andrew N. Weintraub is professor and past chair of music at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Power Plays and Dangdut Stories, editor of Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia, and coeditor of Music and Cultural Rights.
Bart Barendregt is an associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. He is the editor of Sonic Modernities in the Malay World and coeditor of Green Consumption: The Global Rise of Eco-Chic and the volume Recollecting Resonance.
Frederick Lau is the chair and professor of ethnomusicology and director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Christine R. Yano is professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.