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Erotic Triangles: Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java

Henry Spiller - Social Science - 2010 - 264 pages
In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman’s voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there—be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants ...
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Javanese Gamelan: Traditional Orchestra of Indonesia

Jennifer Lindsay - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 108 pages
The gamelan music of central Java, until almost a century ago heard only in Java, is now being widely taught all over the world. More and more non-Indonesians are coming into ...
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The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music

Terry E. Miller, Sean Williams - Music - 2008 - 517 pages
The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated ...
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Javanese Gamelan and the West

Sumarsam - History - 2013 - 222 pages
Preeminant gamelan performer and scholar Sumarsam explores the concept of hybridity in performance traditions that have developed in the context of Javanese encounters with the ...
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Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java

Andrew Noah Weintraub - Electronic books - 2004 - 314 pages
Based on ethnographic fieldwork spanning twenty years, Power Plays is the first scholarly book in English on wayang golek, the Sundanese rod-puppet theater of West Java. It is ...
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Musical Instruments of South-East Asia

Eric Taylor - Music - 1989 - 120 pages
Many Western composers, including Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, and Britten, have found inspiration in South East Asia's ancient musical traditions. Contact with a different ...
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Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia

David Harnish, Anne Rasmussen - Music - 2011 - 408 pages
Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia brings together the work of 11 international scholars into an unprecedented volume focused on religion and performance in a ...
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