The complex notion of rasa, as understood by Javanese musicians,
refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste,
feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing
intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number
of questions: how is rasa expressed musically? Who or what has
rasa, and what sorts of musical, psychological, perceptual, and
sociological distinctions enter into this determination? How is the
vocabulary of rasa structured, and what does this tell us about
traditional Javanese music and aesthetics? In this first book on
the subject, Rasa provides an entry into Javanese music as it is
conceived by the people who know the tradition best: the musicians
themselves. In one of the most thorough explorations of local
aesthetics to date, author Marc Benamou argues that musical meaning
is above all connotative - hence, not only learned, but learnable.
Following several years performing and researching Javanese music
in the regional and national cultural center of Solo, Indonesia,
Benamou untangles the many meanings of rasa as an aesthetic
criterion in Javanese music, particularly in court and
court-derived gamelan traditions. While acknowledging that certain
universal psychological tendencies may inspire parallel
interpretations of musical meaning, Rasa demonstrates just how
culturally specific such accrued, shared meanings can be.
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