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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, ...
Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes), satellite broadcasting, digital downloads, and streaming. The introductory chapter by the volume editors develops two framing metaphors: “traveling musics” and “making waves.” The wave-making metaphor illuminates the ways that traveling musics traverse flows of globalization and migration, initiating change, and generating energy of their own. Each of the nine contributors further examines m...
Meskipun sudah diterbitkan sejak 27 tahun yang lalu, namun novel-novel karya Eddy D. Iskandar tetap aktual dan digeman sampai sekarang. Buktinya, kini novel-novel Eddy yang bertema remaja banyak yang dibuat sinetron serial. Yang sudah dan siap ditayangkan, antara lain Cewek Komersil, Cowok Komersil, Cinta Sang Bintang (judul aslinya Sejoli Cinta Bintang Remaja), Buat Aku Tersenyum (judul aslinya Gadis Manis Puteri Tersayang), Gita Cinta dan SMA, Semau Gue, Puspa lndah Taman Hati, Roman Picisan, Sok Nyentrik, Musim Bercinta, Bunga Cinta Kasih, Beningnya Hati Seorang Gadis, dan sejumlah novel lainnya. -GagasMedia-
This volume is the result of a conference held in October 2015 in connection with the Frankfurt Book Fair discussing developments that are considered important in contemporary Indonesian cultural productions. The first part of the book reflects on the traumatic experiences of the Indonesian nation caused by a failed coup on October 1, 1965. In more general theoretical terms, this topic connects to the field of memory studies, which, in recent decades, has made an academic comeback. The focus of the chapters in this section is how certain, often distressing, events are represented in narratives in a variety of media that are periodically renewed, changed, rehearsed, repeated, and performed, i...
This edited collection examines how people use a range of different modalities to negotiate, influence, and/or project their own or other people's identities. It brings together linguistic scholars concerned with issues of identity through a study of language use in various types of written texts, conversation, performance, and interviews.
Novel ini adalah salah satu novel remaja terbaik sepanjang masa... Puspa Indah Taman Hati adalah film yang memberikan inspirasi pada remaja zamannya justru karena kesederhanaan, kepolosan, dan kejujurannya? -GagasMedia-