Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music, edited by Andrew McGraw and Christopher J. Miller, springs from the fourth “state of the field” conference of the Cornell Modern Indonesia project, held March 29-31, 2018 on Cornell University’s Ithaca campus. The three-day gathering approached Indonesian music both as a subject of academic scholarship and as an artistic practice pursued within and beyond Indonesia. 

The conference involved some four dozen participants, in four paper panels, three roundtables, three performances, and a video exhibition. Nearly all of the verbal presentations were expanded to become the nineteen chapters in the book, while the introduction speaks to the significance of the nonverbal components.

This website includes:

• Links to audio, video, images, and other online content referenced by individual chapters
• An archive of the website for the 2018 conference

For more information on the book, see its page at Cornell University Press