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Gamelan - Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central Java (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Gamelan - Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central Java (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
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"Gamelan" is the first study of the music of Java and the
development of the gamelan to take into account extensive
historical sources and contemporary cultural theory and criticism.
An ensemble dominated by bronze percussion instruments that dates
back to the twelfth century in Java, the gamelan as a musical
organization and a genre of performance reflects a cultural
heritage that is the product of centuries of interaction between
Hindu, Islamic, European, Chinese, and Malay cultural forces.
Drawing on sources ranging from a twelfth-century royal poem to the
writing of a twentieth-century nationalist, Sumarsam shows how the
Indian-inspired contexts and ideology of the Javanese performing
arts were first adjusted to the Sufi tradition and later shaped by
European performance styles in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. He then turns to accounts of gamelan theory and practice
from the colonial and postcolonial periods. Finally, he presents
his own theory of gamelan, stressing the relationship between
purely vocal melodies and classical gamelan composition.
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