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Inventing the Performing Arts - Modernity and Tradition in Colonial Indonesia (Hardcover)
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Inventing the Performing Arts - Modernity and Tradition in Colonial Indonesia (Hardcover)
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Indonesia, with its mix of ethnic cultures, cosmopolitan ethos, and
strong national ideology, offers a useful lens for examining the
intertwining of tradition and modernity in globalized Asia. In
Inventing the Performing Arts, Matthew Isaac Cohen explores the
profound change in diverse arts practices from the nineteenth
century until 1949. He demonstrates that modern modes of
transportation and communication not only brought the Dutch colony
of Indonesia into the world economy, but also stimulated the
emergence of new art forms and modern attitudes to art, disembedded
and remoored traditions, and hybridized foreign and local. In the
nineteenth century, access to novel forms of entertainment, such as
the circus, and newspapers, which offered a new language of
representation and criticism, wrought fundamental changes in
theatrical, musical, and choreographic practices. Musical drama
disseminated print literature to largely illiterate audiences
starting in the 1870s, and spoken drama in the 1920s became a
vehicle for exploring social issues. Twentieth-century
institutions-including night fairs, the recording industry,
schools, itinerant theatre, churches, cabarets, round-the-world
cruises, and amusement parks-generated new ways of making,
consuming, and comprehending the performing arts. Concerned over
the loss of tradition and ""Eastern"" values, elites codified folk
arts, established cultural preservation associations, and
experimented in modern stagings of ancient stories. Urban
nationalists excavated the past and amalgamated ethnic cultures in
dramatic productions that imagined the Indonesian nation. The
Japanese occupation (1942-1945) was brief but significant in
cultural impact: plays, songs, and dances promoting
anti-imperialism, Asian values, and war-time austerity measures
were created by Indonesian intellectuals and artists in
collaboration with Japanese and Korean civilian and military
personnel. Artists were registered, playscripts censored, training
programs developed, and a Cultural Center established. Based on
more than two decades of archival study in Indonesia, Europe, and
the United States, this richly detailed, meticulously researched
book demonstrates that traditional and modern artistic forms were
created and conceived, that is ""invented,"" in tandem. Intended as
a general historical introduction to the performing arts in
Indonesia, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of
Indonesian performance, Asian traditions and modernities, global
arts and culture, and local heritage.
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