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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