Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music

"An expansion on the 2018 Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music conference that looks beyond the field's historical focus on gamelan and related traditional forms and reflects the broadening scope of Indonesian music studies"--

List of contents

Introduction, by Andrew McGraw and Christopher J. Miller

Part I: Musical Communities

1. Harmonic Egalitarianism in Toba Palm Wine Stands and Studios, by Julia Byl

2. The Evolution of Performing Arts Patronage in Bali, Indonesia, by I Nyoman Catra

3. Beyond the Banjar: Community, Education, and Gamelan in North America, by Elizabeth A. Clendinning

4. Decline and Promise: Observations from a Present-Day Pangrawit, by Darsono Hadiraharjo and Maho A. Ishiguro

Part II: Music, Religion, and Civil Society

5. Singing "Naked" Verses: Interactive Intimacies and Islamic Moralities in Saluang Performances in West Sumatra, by Jennifer Fraser

6. From Texts to Invocation: Wayang Puppet Play from the North Coast of Java, by Sumarsam

7. The Politicization of Religious Melody in the Indonesian Culture Wars of 2017, by Anne K. Rasmussen

Part III: Popular Musics and Media

8. The Vernacular Cosmopolitanism of an Indonesian Rock Band: Navicula's Creative and Activist Pathways, by Rebekah E. Moore

9. Keroncong in the United States, by Danis Sugiyanto

10. Reformasi-Era Popular Music Studies: Reflections of an Anti-Anti-Essentialist, by Jeremy Wallach

11. Indonesian Regional Music on VCD: Inclusion, Exclusion, Fusion, by Philip Yampolsky

Part IV: Sound Beyond and As Music

12. A Radical Story of Noise Music from Indonesia, by Dimitri della Faille and Cedrik Fermont

13. Audible Knowledge: Exploring Sound in Indonesian Musik Kontemporer, by Christopher J. Miller

Part V: Music, Gender, and Sexuality

14. "Even Stronger Yet!": Gender and Embodiment in Balinese Youth Arja, by Bethany J. Collier

15. A Prolegomenon to Female Rampak Kendang (Choreographed Group Drumming) in West Java, by Henry Spiller

16. Approaching the Magnetic Power of Femaleness through Cross-Gender Dance Performance in Malang, East Java, by Christina Sunardi

Part VI: Perspectives from Practice

17. Nines on Teaching Beginning Gamelan, by Jody Diamond

18. "Fix Your Face": Performing Attitudes Between Mathcore and Beleganjur, by I Putu Tangkas Hiranmayena

19. Wanbayaning: Voicing a Transcultural Islamic Feminist Exegesis, by Jessica Kenney

Contributors

Index

About the author

edited by Andrew McGraw and Christopher J. Miller

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Miller Mcgraw
• Assisted by: Andrew McGraw (Editor), Christopher J. Miller (Editor)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9781501765223
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-6522-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory