The Fighting Art of Pencak Silat and Its Music

With a wealth of information about an array of performance genres related to the fighting art of pencak silat, this volume articulates for the very first time fascinating dimensions of the beauty, philosophy and diversity of Southeast Asian cultural life.

Info autore

Uwe U. Paetzold, Ph.D. (1998 University of Cologne) is lecturer at the Robert Schumann University of Music, Düsseldorf. He has published books, articles and video documentions on the music and performance cultures related to the Fighting Art pencak silat.
Paul H. Mason, Ph.D. (2012) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Woolcock Institute, University of Sydney. From choreomusicology to cultural evolution, Paul has conducted a rich mixture of laboratory, field and archival research and published in leading academic journals.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Uwe U Paetzold (Editore)
• Editore: de Gruyter Brill
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.01.2016
• EAN: 9789004308749
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30874-9
• Pagine: 468
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Peso: 792 g
• Serie: Brill's Southeast Asian Librar
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro