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Music in Central Java: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series)
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Music in Central Java is one of several casestudy volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of casestudy volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional materials to accompany each study.Music in Central Java offers a vivid introduction to the regions musical and cultural landscape, showing how three themesflexibility, appropriateness, and interconnectednesscharacterize Javanese musical practices and traditions. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork, author Benjamin Brinner takes an indepth look at gamelan musica traditional musical ensemble tradition that typically features metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongsproviding readers with a sense of what it means to be a musician performing gamelan. Building from fundamental Javanese concepts of time and melody, the book covers gamelans instruments, musical idioms, and central interactions and also surveys contrasting performance contexts. It examines both the theatrical and musical aspects of the vibrant tradition of shadowpuppet plays (Wayang kulit) and offers a broad survey of other music found in Central Java. In addition, Music in Central Java provides an engaging portrait of a leading Javenese musician, traces musical responses to radical social, political, and cultural changes over the past century, and considers Javanese music in relation to Indonesia and the rest of the world.Enhanced by eyewitness accounts of performances, interviews with key performers, vivid illustrations, and handson listening activities, this book is a captivating introduction to the music of Central Java. It is packaged with a 78minute audio CD containing examples of the music discussed in the book.
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