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Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia
Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia is an introduction to the familiar music from Southeast Asia's largest country - both as sound and cultural phenomenon. An archipelago of over 17,000 islands, Indonesia is a melting pot of Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, and British influences. Despite this diversity, it has forged a national culture, one in which music plays a significant role. Gamelan music, in particular, teaches us much about Indonesian values and modern-day life. Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia provides an introduction to present-day Javanese, Balinese, Cirebonese, and Sundanese gamelan music through ethnic, social, cultural, and global perspectives. Part One, Music and Southeast Asian History ̧ provides introductory materials for the study of Southeast Asian music. Part Two, Gamelan Music in Java and Bali, moves to a more focused overview of Gamelan music in Indonesia. Part Three, Focusing In, takes an in-depth look at Sundanese gamelan traditions, as well modern developments in Sundanese music and dance. The accompanying downloadable resources offer vivid examples of traditional Indonesian gamelan music.
Jaranan
The dramatic genre of the horse dance (jaranan) is part of an age-old Javanese tradition displaying wide local and regional variations. A striking feature of the performances of the majority of horse dance groups is the appearance of trance dancers. These are used as a means of establishing contact with the spirits of the ancestors, who continue to play an important part in the lives of their descendants as moral beacons in the solution of problems and the fulfillment of wishes. As a consequence of the modernization of society in almost every aspect of life, vigorously propagated as it was by the Suharto regime in the period 1966-1998, the trance in horse dancing has been strongly discouraged as an anachronism. This has prompted a search for new ways of preserving this dramatic genre for future generations. The way the administration of Kediri and a number of local horse dance companies set about solving this problem constitutes a dominant theme of this book. To bring the phenomenon of the horse dance in Java into sharper focus, a brief account is given of its history, as well as a description of the great variety of horse dance groups of and a range of aspects of this genre.
Released from Kala's Grip
Wayang play.
Voices of the Puppet Masters
"Indonesia's wayang golek puppet theater is among the world's oldest and richest puppetry traditions, contemporary with Japanese Noh drama and the mystery plays of Europe. The puppet masters, many of whom trace their skills back through seven or eight generations, are extraordinary artists. Some are shamans, and many are charismatic performers. The master carvers who create these three-dimensional wooden puppets boast similarly impressive genealogies, and their work draws equally on ancient mystical practices. As the puppet master Tizar Purbaya once explained, "The wayang puppet is not a doll. It follows the dalang [puppet master], but the dalang must also follow it. He gives it soul and it,...
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Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre: O-Z
Surveys traditional and contemporary Asian theatre through hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 90 expert contributors.
Théâtres d'Asie à l'oeuvre
4e de couv.: De l’Inde à la Chine, le théâtre constitue un phénomène d’une ampleur et d’une richesse remarquables. Trois grands thèmes sont ici abordés. Le premier traite de la circulation des traditions relatives à ces spectacles et tout particulièrement des échanges entre cultures lettrées et populaires. Les processus d’emprunts, d’acculturation, de vernacularisation sont au centre de l’analyse. Le deuxième thème est consacré aux formes et aux moyens d’expression, aux techniques de l’acteur, à la musique et à la scénographie. Le troisième thème considère le rôle du contexte politique et du pouvoir. Ces expressions théâtrales étant capables de s’agréger des fonctions rituelles, religieuses, politiques ou économiques, les États et les groupes ethniques les ont chargées d’éléments identitaires. Les contributions rassemblées partagent une approche anthropologique commune des théâtres d’Asie : fondamentalement historique, attachée à la dimension religieuse autant qu’aux aspects esthétiques de la performance, et attentive aux relations entre commanditaires, publics et acteurs.
Brazilian Music
Demonstrates how the music of Brazil's northeast region fostered a complex and racially mixed hybrid culture.
