Indonesia is celebrated for its courtly arts, its beautiful
beaches, its tourist attractions, and its artisan marketplace. Yet
long overdue is a look at Indonesian Islam as the source of and
inspiration for the arts throughout the history if its people, and
in the dynamic popular performances of today. From the rhythmic
grooves of dang dut, the archipelago's tenacious pop music, to the
oft-quoted image of the wayang shadow puppet-theater, Divine
Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia investigates the
expression of the Muslim religion through a diversity of art forms
in this region. And from Quranic recitation by teenaged girls and
women in Jakarta to the provincial patronage of Sufi arts and
Muslim ritual as regional performance, this volume further
addresses the ways in which Islam-inspired performance has been
co-opted and appropriated for the expression of national culture.
Eleven ethnographic case studies by an international roster of
specialists in Indonesian expressive culture and performing arts
are complimented by an introduction by co-editors David Harnish and
Anne Rasmussen, and an epilogue by senior scholar Judith Becker.
The collection explores the region's various micro-cultures of
music, dance, religious ritual, government patronage, social
censorship, tourism, development, and gender roles and relations.
This pastiche speaks on personal, political, global, and local
levels to the most important question of identity and ideology in
Indonesia today: Islam. Divine Inspirations will engage readers
interested in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Islam, world
religions, global discourse, and music, arts and ritual.
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