Research Catalog

Title

Balinese discourses on music and modernization : village voices and urban views / Brita Renée Heimarck.

Author

Heimarck, Brita Renée, 1962-

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Details

Description

xxv, 367 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Current research in ethnomusicology ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Current research in ethnomusicology v. 5.

Subjects

• Interviews
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Wayang
• Musicians > Indonesia > Bali (Province) > Interviews
• Music > Indonesia > Bali (Province) > History and criticism
• Sekola Tiuggi Seni Indonesia

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Interviews

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-361) and index.

Contents

Musical discourses from Sukawati : the transition from traditional to modern. Historical accounts of the shadow play tradition in Banjar Babakan, Sukawati ; Bapak i wayan loceng : proverbs, metaphors, and musical techniques ; Interviews with the young generation of shadow play performers in Banjar Babakan, Sukawati -- Musical discourses in the context of STSI, the Indonesian College for the Arts in Denpasar, Bali : STSI as a mirror of modernization based on continuity and change ; The practices and principles of STSI ; STSI and scholarship : Balinese written discourses on music and the shadow play ; The political role of STSI ; Conclusion.

ISBN

041594208X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002155169

OCLC

• 51178173
• SCSB-10107119

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library