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Power Plays
Based on ethnographic fieldwork spanning twenty years, Power Plays is the first scholarly book in English on wayang golek, the Sundanese rod-puppet theater of West Java. It is a detailed and lively account of the ways in which performers of this major Asian theatrical form have engaged with political discourses in Indonesia. Wayang golek has shaped, as well, the technological and commercial conditions of art and performance in a modernizing society. Using interviews with performers, musical transcriptions, translations of narrative and song texts, and archival materials, author Andrew N. Weintraub analyzes the shifting and flexible nature of a set of performance practices called Padalangan, ...
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java: Singing is a Medicine by Wim van Zanten is about music and dance of the indigenous group of the Baduy, consisting of about twelve-thousand people living in western Java. It covers music for rice rituals, for circumcisions and weddings, and music for entertainment. The book includes many photographs and several discussed audio-visual examples that can be found on DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5170520. Baduy are suppposed to live a simple, ascetic life. However, there is a shortage of agricultural land and there are many temptations from the changing world around them. Little has been published on Baduy music and dance. Wim van Zanten’s book seeks to fill this lacuna and is based on short periods of fieldwork from 1976 to 2016.
Erotic Triangles
In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman’s voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there—be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen—breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to the rhythm at village ceremonies, weddings, political rallies, and nightclubs. The music the men dance to varies from traditional gong ensembles to the contemporary pop known as dangdut, but they consistently dance with great enthusiasm. In Erotic Triangles, Henry Spiller draws on decades of ethnographic research to explore the reasons behind this phenomenon, arguing that Sundanese men use dance to explore and enact contradictions in their gender identities. Framing the three crucial elements of Sundanese dance—the female entertainer, the drumming, and men’s sense of freedom—as a triangle, Spiller connects them to a range of other theoretical perspectives, drawing on thinkers from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lévi-Strauss, and Freud to Euclid. By granting men permission to literally perform their masculinity, Spiller ultimately concludes, dance provides a crucial space for both reinforcing and resisting orthodox gender ideologies.
INCOLWIS 2019
This book constitutes a through refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Local Wisdom - 2019,held on August, 29 – 30, 2019 at Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia. The conference was organised by Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Andalas. The 95 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions. The scope of the paper includes the followings: Local Wisdom in Science, Local Wisdom in Religion, Local Wisdom in Culture, Local Wisdom in Language, Local Wisdom in Literature, Local Wisdom in Health, Local Wisdom in Education, Local Wisdom in Law, Local Wisdom in Architecture, Local Wisdom in Nature, Local Wisdom in Oral Tradition, Local Wisdom in Art, Local Wisdom in Tourism, Local Wisdom in Environment, Local Wisdom in Communication, Local Wisdom in Agriculture.
Sounding the Dance, Moving the Music
Performing arts in most parts of Maritime Southeast Asia are seen as an entity, where music and dance, sound and movement, acoustic and tactile elements intermingle and complement each other. Although this fact is widely known and referenced, most scholarly works in the performing arts so far have either focused on "music" or "dance" rather than treating the two in combination. The authors in this book look at both aspects in performance, moreover, they focus explicitly on the interrelation between the two, on both descriptive-analytical and metaphorical levels. The book includes diverse examples of regional performing art genres from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. All case studies are composed from the perspective of the relatively new approach and field of ethno-choreomusicology. This particular compilation gives an exemplary overview of various phenomena in movement-sound relations, and offers for the first time a thorough study of the phenomenon that is considered essential for the performing arts in Maritime Southeast Asia - the inseparability of movement and sound.
History of The Development of Kebaya Sunda
Praise of Gratitude the author prays to Allah SWT, who has bestowed His mercy and guidance, so that the book of the History of the Development of Sundanese Kebaya can be resolved properly. This book is part of the master thesis to obtain a Master of Design Degree at ITB. This book contains the history and the development of kebaya in the Sunda region. On this occasion, the author expresses his deepest gratitude to: 1. Dr. Biranul Anas Z., as the supervisor who has given a lot of material input and direction of the thinking flow in this study. 2. Drs. Yan Yan Sunarya, M.Sn., as the counselor II who gave a lot of time to provide guidance, provided many corrections and improvements and provided...
Performing the Nation
In sharp contrast to today's disorder was the apparent cohesion and stability of Indonesia during much of the New Order period (1965-1998). While Suharto's authoritarian rule was significant, the regime's cultural policies also played their part in demonstrating that his regime created order throughout Indonesia not just through coercive means. Ethnic, religious, and regional sentiments were to be channelled into art, which was used to help develop a national Indonesian identity. This theme is explored by this study, which focuses on the efforts of a group of young art students based at the Bandung Academy of Performing Arts to revitalize traditional Longser theater.
Apa Siapa Orang Sunda
Kurangnya sumber tertulis mengenai manusia dan kebudayaan Sunda. Tidak banyak buku atau tulisan tentang sejarah, tentang kesenian dan tentang segala sesuatu yang berkenaan dengan kebudayaan Sunda—terasa sekali kurangnya kalau dibandingkan dengan literatur tentang Jawa dan Bali. Entah mengapa para sarjana asing juga sedikit sekali yang menaruh perhatian terhadap orang Sunda dan kebudayaannya. Di kalangan orang Sunda sendiri tidak ada tradisi menulis dan menyusun dokumentasi, sehingga tak heran kalau generasi belakangan merasa "pareumeun obor," kehilangan petunjuk tentang hubungan dengan nenek-moyang dan saudara-saudara sendiri. Karena itu setelah Ensiklopedi Sunda terbit (2000), segera kami merasa perlu menyusun dan menerbitkan semacam "Who's Who" tentang orang Sunda sebagai database yang membuat biodata tentang orang-orang Sunda yang memperlihatkan prestasi menonjol dalam bidangnya masing-masing. [Pustaka Jaya, Dunia Pustaka Jaya]
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