Sumarsam

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Gamelan: Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central JavaPaperback, 15 December 1995

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Part of Series
Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Print Length
368 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
15 Dec 1995
ISBN-10
0226780112
ISBN-13
9780226780115

Description

Gamelan is the first study of the music of Java and the development of the gamelan to take into account extensive historical sources and contemporary cultural theory and criticism. An ensemble dominated by bronze percussion instruments that dates back to the twelfth century in Java, the gamelan as a musical organization and a genre of performance reflects a cultural heritage that is the product of centuries of interaction between Hindu, Islamic, European, Chinese, and Malay cultural forces.

Drawing on sources ranging from a twelfth-century royal poem to the writing of a twentieth-century nationalist, Sumarsam shows how the Indian-inspired contexts and ideology of the Javanese performing arts were first adjusted to the Sufi tradition and later shaped by European performance styles in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He then turns to accounts of gamelan theory and practice from the colonial and postcolonial periods. Finally, he presents his own theory of gamelan, stressing the relationship between purely vocal melodies and classical gamelan composition.

Product Details

Author:
Sumarsam
Book Format:
Paperback
Date Published:
15 December 1995
Dimensions:
23.06 x 15.54 x 2.13 cm
ISBN-10:
0226780112
ISBN-13:
9780226780115
Language:
English
Location:
Chicago, IL
Pages:
368
Weight:
521.63 gm

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