Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music of Wayang in Central Java - Softcover

Weiss, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9067182737 ISBN 13: 9789067182737

Synopsis

PLEASE NOTE that the accompanying CD-ROM is no longer available due to the incompatibility with current file formats.This study is the first large-scale treatment of gender issues in Indonesian music. Integrating the analysis of gender and music with that of aesthetics, this study of the musical synergy between the puppeteer and his female accompanist describes the ways in which shifting gender constructions have helped to shape and change Central Javanese music and theatre performance practice while throwing new light on the history of Javanese gender relations and culture, as well as on the aesthetics of Central Javanese shadow-puppet theatre.

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About the Author

Sarah Weiss is Associate Professor of Music at Yale University. Working primarily in Asian performing arts, Weiss has addressed issues of gender, aesthetics, postcoloniality, and hybridity in her writing and teaching. She is director of the Yale Javanese ensemble, Gamelan Suprabanggo (www.yale.edu/seas/yalegamelan), Council Member for Southeast Asia Studies and South Asian Studies at Yale, and member of the Teagle Foundation's National Forum for the Future of Liberal Education.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9067182737
• ISBN 13: 9789067182737
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 187