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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Clendinning has flipped the script. Rather than describing Balinese performers as if ‘they’ come to ‘us’, she shows how their far-flung pedagogical networks reshaped US-based music programs in higher education from the inside out. Her intimate portraits of three generations of Balinese teachers reveal them as the makers of transnational music communities. This book is both fascinating and moving. I am convinced all over again that these almost utopian third spaces are sorely needed."--Deborah Wong, University of California, Riverside
"An ambitious work that can really spark scholarship that intersects ethnomusicology, performance studies, and the scholarship on teaching and learning. Clendinning discusses the positive aspects of world music ensembles, but is also open about the ethical issues involved in running a gamelan in an institution of higher education."--Eric Hung, Music of Asian America Research Center
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1 Interlocking Sounds, Interlocking Communities
2 Early Encounters in Bimusicality
3 From Bali to America: Teachers and Transitions
4 Creating and Conceptualizing a Balinese American Gamelan Community
5 Teaching, Learning, Representing
6 Americans Learning Gamelan in Bali
7 Kembali: To Return or Change
8 Bimusicality and Beyond
9 Sustainability and the Academic World Music Ensemble
10 Cultivating New Flowers
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