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Javanese Gamelan and the West (Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology)
Sumarsam
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Preeminant gamelan performer and scholar Sumarsam explores the concept of hybridity in performance traditions that have developed in the context of Javanese encounters with the West. Javanese Gamelan and the West studies the meaning, forms, and traditions of the Javanese performing arts as they developed and changed through their contact with Western culture. Authored by a gamelan performer, teacher, and scholar, the book traces the adaptations in gamelan art as a result of Western colonialism in nineteenth-century Java, showing how Western musical and dramatic practices were domesticated by Javanese performers creating hybrid Javanese-Western art forms, such as with the ... Read more
Preeminant gamelan performer and scholar Sumarsam explores the concept of hybridity in performance traditions that have developed in the context of Javanese encounters with the West. Javanese Gamelan and the West studies the meaning, forms, and traditions of the Javanese performing arts as they developed and changed through their contact with Western culture. Authored by a gamelan performer, teacher, and scholar, the book traces the adaptations in gamelan art as a result of Western colonialism in nineteenth-century Java, showing how Western musical and dramatic practices were domesticated by Javanese performers creating hybrid Javanese-Western art forms, such as with the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781580464451
SKU
V9781580464451
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Reviews for Javanese Gamelan and the West (Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology)
This book offers a sweeping overview of Javanese musical and cultural interactions with the rest of the world, providing critique and reconsideration of the prevalent themes and ideas that have fascinated scholars for decades. It will be essential reading, not only for Javanists but for scholars of postcolonialism in general.
Sarah Weiss, Associate Professor, Department of Music, Yale University ... Read more
Sarah Weiss, Associate Professor, Department of Music, Yale University ... Read more