South East Asia

Since the days of Marco Polo, the West has been fascinated by the East. More recently, Western composers from Claude Debussy to John Cage have cited Asian music as having influenced their work. Although today many types of traditional music can still be heard in Asia, the last hundred years of Western influence has had a tremendous effect on music there and much of it has become Westernised. Nonetheless, the music discussed here is primarily concerned with genres that are indigenous...