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portada Javanese Gamelan and the West (0) (Eastman/Rochester Studies: Ethnomusicology)
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x1.3 cm
Weight
0.33 kg.
ISBN13
9781580465236
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Javanese Gamelan and the West (0) (Eastman/Rochester Studies: Ethnomusicology)

Sumarsam (Author) · University of Rochester Press · Paperback

Javanese Gamelan and the West (0) (Eastman/Rochester Studies: Ethnomusicology) - Sumarsam

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Synopsis "Javanese Gamelan and the West (0) (Eastman/Rochester Studies: Ethnomusicology)"

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 introduction of brass bands in gendhing mares court music and West Javanese tanjidor, and Western theatrical idioms in contemporary wayang puppet plays. The book also examines the presentation of Javanese gamelan to the West, detailing performances in World's Fairs and American academia and considering its influence on Western performing arts and musical and performance studies. The end result is a comprehensive treatment of the formation of modern Javanese gamelan and a fascinating look at how an art form dramatizes changes and developments in a culture. Sumarsam is a University Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Gamelan: Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central Java (University of Chicago Press, 1995) and numerous articles in English and Indonesian. As a gamelan musician and a keenamateur dhalang (puppeteer) of Javanese wayang puppet play, he performs, conducts workshops, and lectures throughout the US, Australia, Europe, and Asia.

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