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Unplayed Melodies
A long awaited study of musical structure and music cognition, using Javanese gamelan and western classical music as the main points of comparison.
Asian Music
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The In-Between in Javanese Performing Arts
Winner of a 2025 Nancy Staub Publications Award from UNIMA-USA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette) This book is the first comprehensive overview of Javanese performing arts from their origins to their dynamic present. Renowned scholar and musician Sumarsam draws from a lifetime of immersion in both wayang and gamelan to guide readers through the concept of the "in-between," revealing how the interplay of dualisms—myth and history, sacred and secular, personal and cultural—forms the bedrock of Javanese performance. Rigorously researched historical case studies reveal the intricate relationship between histories and mythologies in Java. Wayang, accompanied by gamelan, is a multimedia ...
Yearbook for Traditional Music
Includes record reviews.
Heavenly Nymphs and Earthly Delights
The solo female singer, pesindhen, who performs with the Central Javanese gamelan ensemble, occupies a particularly ambivalent position in Javanese society. She exists uneasily in the gap between the respectable, dispassionate ideal of Javanese womanhood and the enticing, rapturous pull of the flamboyantly dressed prostitute.
Choice
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Crossroads
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