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Book SynopsisSounding Out the State of Indonesian Music showcases the breadth and complexity of the music of Indonesia. By bringing together chapters on the merging of Batak musical preferences and popular music aesthetics; the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a Balinese rock band; the burgeoning underground noise scene; the growing interest in kroncong in the United States; and what is included and excluded on Indonesian media, editors Andrew McGraw and Christopher J. Miller expand the scope of Indonesian music studies. Essays analyzing the perception of decline among gamelan musicians in Central Java; changes in performing arts patronage in Bali; how gamelan communities form between Bali and North America; and reflecting on the refusion of American mathcore and Balinese gamelan offer new perspectives on more familiar topics.
Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music calls for a new paradigm in popular music studies, grapples with the imperative to decolon
Table of Contents
Introduction, by Andrew McGraw and Christopher J. Miller
Part I: Musical Communities
1. Harmonic Egalitarianism in Toba Palm Wine Stands and Studios, by Julia Byl
2. The Evolution of Performing Arts Patronage in Bali, Indonesia, by I Nyoman Catra
3. Beyond the Banjar: Community, Education, and Gamelan in North America, by Elizabeth A. Clendinning
4. Decline and Promise: Observations from a Present-Day Pangrawit, by Darsono Hadiraharjo and Maho A. Ishiguro
Part II: Music, Religion, and Civil Society
5. Singing "Naked" Verses: Interactive Intimacies and Islamic Moralities in Saluang Performances in West Sumatra, by Jennifer Fraser
6. From Texts to Invocation: Wayang Puppet Play from the North Coast of Java, by Sumarsam
7. The Politicization of Religious Melody in the Indonesian Culture Wars of 2017, by Anne K. Rasmussen
Part III: Popular Musics and Media
8. The Vernacular Cosmopolitanism of an Indonesian Rock Band: Navicula's Creative and Activist Pathways, by Rebekah E. Moore
9. Keroncong in the United States, by Danis Sugiyanto
10. Reformasi-Era Popular Music Studies: Reflections of an Anti-Anti-Essentialist, by Jeremy Wallach
11. Indonesian Regional Music on VCD: Inclusion, Exclusion, Fusion, by Philip Yampolsky
Part IV: Sound Beyond and As Music
12. A Radical Story of Noise Music from Indonesia, by Dimitri della Faille and Cedrik Fermont
13. Audible Knowledge: Exploring Sound in Indonesian Musik Kontemporer, by Christopher J. Miller
Part V: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
14. "Even Stronger Yet!": Gender and Embodiment in Balinese Youth Arja, by Bethany J. Collier
15. A Prolegomenon to Female Rampak Kendang (Choreographed Group Drumming) in West Java, by Henry Spiller
16. Approaching the Magnetic Power of Femaleness through Cross-Gender Dance Performance in Malang, East Java, by Christina Sunardi
Part VI: Perspectives from Practice
17. Nines on Teaching Beginning Gamelan, by Jody Diamond
18. "Fix Your Face": Performing Attitudes Between Mathcore and Beleganjur, by I Putu Tangkas Hiranmayena
19. Wanbayaning: Voicing a Transcultural Islamic Feminist Exegesis, by Jessica Kenney
Contributors
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