The Kecak and Cultural Tourism on Bali (Hardcover)

Examines the history of one of the best known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali and its connection with cultural tourism. The kecak is one of the best-known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali. Based on the ancient Indian Ramayana epic, it is performed by an ensemble of male and female solo dancers and accompanied by a hundred men who function as both musicians and living scenery. Since its creation in the 1930s, the kecak has been primarily a tourist performance. Drawing on over twenty years of fieldwork and meticulous archival study, Kendra Stepputat provides here a comprehensive study of the history, form, and cultural significance of the kecak. The first part of the book focuses on the kecak in its present form, including musical, choreographic, and dramatic elements. The connection between cultural tourism on Bali and kecak performance practice is analyzed in detail, including the dependency between tourism professionals and artists and ways of promoting the kecak. Tourists' perspectives on the kecak are addressed separately. The second part deals with the genesis and development of the kecak from the 1930s onward, exploring how it became and stayed a tourist genre for more than eighty years.

General

Imprint:	University of Rochester Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology
Release date:	November 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Kendra Stepputat
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	389
ISBN-13:	978-1-64825-031-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Tourism industry Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	1-64825-031-9
Barcode:	9781648250316

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