Voices In Bali

Author : Edward Herbst
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819573285

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Voices in Bali by Edward Herbst Pdf

A scholar and trained performer of Balinese vocal music and dance, ethnomusicologist Edward Herbst brings unique talents to bear in this provocative book. The lessons of his Balinese masters enable him to offer fresh insight to this culture's aesthetics and cultural elements. Appropriating John Cage's effective style of "mixing theory, anecdote, context, philosophy, and humor," Herbst crafts an accessible body of work, compelling in substance and form. By merging the "Balinese concept of place-time-context with Cage's concepts of structure, method, and form, [Herbst] returns to the critical issue of what scholars and intercultural artists are doing, and 'what' is their 'object' under study." Undergraduates and scholars in fields as varied as theater studies and anthropology will find this book and companion CD (in print editions) an important resource not only for its knowledgeable treatment of Balinese culture, but as an example of a more personal and engaging style of scholarly discourse. The ebook edition includes embedded audio.

Author : Bapak I Wayan Loceng
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780895798121

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Gender Wayang Music of Bapak I Wayan Loceng from Sukawati, Bali by Bapak I Wayan Loceng Pdf

This critical edition is at once a memorial to Bapak I Wayan Loceng following his passing in October, 2006, and a tribute to his great musical genius. This edition documents nine compositions from the esteemed Balinese gender wayang or shadow play repertoire. The music documented derives from the musical mastery of Bapak I Wayan Loceng (1926–2006), arguably the most renowned gender wayang expert in Bali, who lived in the village of Sukawati. This edition places the music within a historical, cultural, and biographical context and introduces a broad theoretical framework that contains a new definition for the discipline of ethnomusicology, and substantial discussion of the genres of musical biography, musical ethnography, and ethnomusicology of the individual. This edition will introduce the reader to pertinent scholarly perspectives, offer biographical information pertaining to Bapak I Wayan Loceng, delineate the cultural concepts and contexts for performance and background of the shadow play tradition in Bali, and clarify key aspects of the music itself.

Author : Brita Renee Heimarck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136800467

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Balinese Discourses on Music and Modernization by Brita Renee Heimarck Pdf

While many Western scholars have discussed the technical aspects of Balinese music or the traditional contexts for performance, little has been written in Western languages about Balinese discourses on their music. This dissertation seeks to understand the experience of music in Bali according to Balinese voices through an analysis of oral and written dialogues on music, mainly by musicians and dalangs (shadow play puppeteers) from the village of Sukawati, scholars, teachers, administrators and students from the Indonesian College of the Arts (STSI) in the City of Denpasar. The study examines the influence of modernization on the traditional arts and their role in society. A concentration on Balinese discourses enables individual performers and scholars to represent themselves to a greater extent than previously seen in ethnomusicological scholarship, making this study more of a critical discussion among equals than a Western interpretation of 'others'. This approach permits a rare view into contemporary Balinese conceptions and practices of music.

Author : Nicholas Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351928304

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Improvisation and Composition in Balinese Gendér Wayang by Nicholas Gray Pdf

This book is an examination of the music of the Balinese gendér wayang, the quartet of metallophones - gendér - that accompanies the Balinese shadow puppet play - wayang kulit. The book focuses on processes of musical variation, the main means of creating new music in this genre, and the implications of these processes for the social and historical study of Balinese music, musical aesthetics, concepts of creativity and compositional methods. Dr Nick Gray tackles a number of core ethnomusicological concerns in a new way, including the relationship between composition and improvisation, and also highlights issues specific to Balinese music, including the importance of flexibility in performance, an aspect that has been largely ignored by scholars. Gray thus breaks new ground both in the study of issues relating to improvisation and composition and in Balinese music studies.

Author : Angela Hobart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136141386

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Dancing Shadows Of Bali by Angela Hobart Pdf

First published in 1987. This book began in Bali during 1970–72, during the author’s Ph.D. research on the shadow theatre for the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. However, two subsequent trips to Bali in 1980 and 1984, when I studied other forms of dance-drama and ritual, greatly contributed to the work. The shadow theatre in Bali is described and its place in the society and culture explored. It is so called, as during the night performance puppets cast vibrant shadows against a white cotton screen which is illuminated by a flickering coconut-oil lamp.

Author : Megan Jennaway
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461617327

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Sisters and Lovers by Megan Jennaway Pdf

This rich ethnography in a rural village in North Bali illuminates the construction of desire by exploring cultural practices regarding courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity. The way these cornerstones of daily life are played out in the alternative arenas of tourism and illness highlight pervasive gender disparities in the expression of sexuality. By allowing key informants to tell their stories in their own voices and by skillfully interweaving fictionalized interludes, the author gives us not only a rigorously researched ethnography but an intimate and fully realized portrait of Balinese women's innermost desires.

Author : Mary Sabine Zurbuchen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781400858767

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The Language of Balinese Shadow Theater by Mary Sabine Zurbuchen Pdf

Bali's shadow puppet theater, like others in Southeast Asia, is a complex tradition with many conventions that puzzle Western observers. Mary Zurbuchen demonstrates how the linguistic codes of this rich art form mediate between social groups, cultural influences, historical periods, and conceptual schemes. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Sonja Riesberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614518716

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Symmetrical Voice and Linking in Western Austronesian Languages by Sonja Riesberg Pdf

This book is an in-depth study of the voice systems of Totoli, Balinese, Indonesian, and Tagalog, which shows that the symmetrical nature of these systems poses a problem to current linking theories. It provides an analysis of symmetrical linking within two grammatical theories (LFG & RRG) and develops a modified LFG linking mechanism that sheds light on the differences as well as the similarities of symmetrical and asymmetrical voice systems.

Author : Andrew Clay McGraw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199941407

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Radical Traditions by Andrew Clay McGraw Pdf

In Radical Traditions, author Andrew Clay McGraw shows how music kontemporer embodies the tensions between culture as represented and lived. Through a highly interdisciplinary approach this book presents an all-encompassing social and musical history of musik kontemporer.

Author : Brita Heimarck Renee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136800450

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Balinese Discourses on Music and Modernization by Brita Heimarck Renee Pdf

While many Western scholars have discussed the technical aspects of Balinese music or the traditional contexts for performance, little has been written in Western languages about Balinese discourses on their music. This dissertation seeks to understand the experience of music in Bali according to Balinese voices through an analysis of oral and written dialogues on music, mainly by musicians and dalangs (shadow play puppeteers) from the village of Sukawati, scholars, teachers, administrators and students from the Indonesian College of the Arts (STSI) in the City of Denpasar. The study examines the influence of modernization on the traditional arts and their role in society. A concentration on Balinese discourses enables individual performers and scholars to represent themselves to a greater extent than previously seen in ethnomusicological scholarship, making this study more of a critical discussion among equals than a Western interpretation of 'others'. This approach permits a rare view into contemporary Balinese conceptions and practices of music.

Author : Leon Rubin,I. Nyoman Sedana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134324217

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Performance in Bali by Leon Rubin,I. Nyoman Sedana Pdf

Unique in its examination of the techniques used in the training of performers, the book suggests how some of these techniques might be applied to Western training in drama and dance.

Author : Ann Grodzins Gold,Bhoju Ram Gujar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822328208

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In the Time of Trees and Sorrows by Ann Grodzins Gold,Bhoju Ram Gujar Pdf

A collaborative ethnography that collects ordinary persons' recollections of everyday life, politics, and the environment in Rajasthan from when the state was a kingdom and since independence.

Author : H.I.R. Hinzler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004287211

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Bima Swarga in Balinese Wayang by H.I.R. Hinzler Pdf

The aim of the author's research was to study 1) the thematic elements and the composition of the plays (lelampahan wayang), and 2) their religious and cultural background. She concentrates on one particular play: the story of Bima Swarga. The study is based mainly on fieldwork carried out in Bali over the period 1972- 1976, when materials were collected from oral and written sources.

Author : Jean Couteau
Publisher : Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bali Island (Indonesia)
ISBN : 9799100321

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Bali Today: Modernity by Jean Couteau Pdf

Author : Swati Parashar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134116133

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Women and Militant Wars by Swati Parashar Pdf

This book explores women’s militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women ‘do’ in wars. In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where collective violence (against civilians and security forces) is used to achieve political objectives. Extending the notion of war as ‘politics of injury' to the armed militancy in Indian administered Kashmir and the Tamil armed insurgency in Sri Lanka, this book explores how women participate in militant wars, and how that politics not only shapes the gendered understandings of women’s identities and bodies but is in turn shaped by them. The case studies discussed in the book offer new comparative insight into two different and most prevalent forms of insurgent wars today: religio-political and ethno-nationalist. Empirical analyses of women’s roles in the Sri Lankan Tamil militant group, the LTTE and the logistical, ideological support women provide to militant groups active in Indian administered Kashmir suggest that these insurgent wars have their own gender dynamics in recruitment and operational strategies. Thus, Women and Militant Wars provides an excellent insight into the gender politics of these insurgencies and women’s roles and experiences within them. This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of critical war and security studies, feminist international relations, gender studies, terrorism and political violence, South Asia studies and IR in general.