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Music in Central Java: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series)
Introducing cultural and social processes and the values of music in Javanese life, this text features eye witness accounts of performances, interviews with key performers, hands-on activities, vivid illustrations and a 70 minute CD of the author's field recordings. The author provides a survey of other music that may be found in Central Java.
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
April 26th 2007
by OUP USA
(first published March 5th 2007)
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This is yet another in the Oxford UP Global Music Series. It centers around a subject near and dear to me - Javanese gamelan. I took two classes in gamelan at Wesleyan and loved every minute of them both. Playing in the gamelan was a terrific experience and I miss it. (Also, my teacher at Wesleyan, Sumarsam, is mentioned and pictured in this book.)
Music in Central Java was surprisingly comprehensive for its length, covering gamelan instruments and music in detail and even providing a full synops ...more
Music in Central Java was surprisingly comprehensive for its length, covering gamelan instruments and music in detail and even providing a full synops ...more
Another in the Global Music series, also about gamelan music, this time in Central Java. The music on the CD was very different than on the Bali CD, even though the descriptions in the text sounded more similar; the gamelan (orchestra) is about the same, and there are genres in common, especially the wayang (shadow puppet shows.) Maybe part of the difference was that the selections here were almost all vocal, and the ones on the Bali CD were mostly instrumental only. My only criticism would be t
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