Performance in Java and Bali: Studies of Narrative, Theatre, Music and Dance

edited by Bernard Arps

ISBN 10: 0728602172 / ISBN 13: 9780728602175

Published by London : School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1993

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xi, 244 pages : illustrations : 24 cm. Contents: Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Po-te-hi: the Chinese glove-puppet theatre in East Java / VICTORIA M. CLARA VAN GROENENDAEL -- chapter 2 The seblang and its music: aspects of an East Javanese fertility rite / PAUL A. WOLBERS -- chapter 3 Jaipongan: the making of a new tradition / JEAN HELLWIG -- chapter 4 Character types and movement styles in traditional Javanese theatre / CLARA BRAKEL -- chapter 5 Dance drama (wayang wong) and politics at the court of Sultan Hamengkubuwana III (1812-14) of Yogyakarta -- chapter 6 Traditional Balinese performing arts as yajnya / MARTIN RAMSTEDT -- chapter 7 Golek Menak and tayuban: patronage and professionalism in two spheres of Central Javanese culture / FELICIA HUGHES-FREELAND -- chapter 8 Semang and Seblang: thoughts on music, dance, and the sacred in Central and East Java -- chapter 9 Sung epic narrative and lyrical songs: carita pantun and tembangSunda -- chapter 10 Co-ordination between music and language in Balinese shadow-play, with emphasis on wayang gambuh -- chapter 11 The dramatic principles of Javanese narrative temple reliefs -- chapter 12 Slendro and pelog in India? / RICHARD WIDDESS -- chapter 13 Notes on the acoustics and tuning of gamelan instruments -- chapter 14 Rassers's comparison of the Panji tales to The tempest: an early case of anthropology of performing arts / KEES P. EPSKAMP.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Performance in Java and Bali: Studies of Narrative, Theatre, Music and Dance
• Publisher: London : School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0728602172
• ISBN 13: 9780728602175
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • SOAS Publications
  • Southeast Asia
  • Ethnomusicology

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Synopsis

The studies in this book examine traditional performance genres in the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali. They cover puppet and human theatre, dance, sung narrative, narrative temple reliefs, and vocal and instrumental music, span a period of more than a thousand years, and range over four cultural complexes: Sundanese in western Java, Javanese in central and eastern Java, Chinese in eastern Java, and Balinese in Bali.