{"product_id":"the-kecak-and-cultural-tourism-on-bali-9781648250316","title":"The Kecak and Cultural Tourism on Bali","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the history of one of the best known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali and its connection with cultural tourism.  The kecak is one of the best-known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali. Based on the ancient Indian Ramayana epic, it is performed by an ensemble of male and female solo dancers and accompanied by a hundred men who function as both musicians and living scenery. Since its creation in the 1930s, the kecak has been primarily a tourist performance.   Drawing on over twenty years of fieldwork and meticulous archival study, Kendra Stepputat provides here a comprehensive study of the history, form, and cultural significance of the kecak. The first part of the book focuses on the kecak in its present form, including musical, choreographic, and dramatic elements. The connection between cultural tourism on Bali and kecak performance practice is analyzed in detail, including the dependency between tourism professionals and artists and ways of promoting the kecak. Tourists' perspectives on the kecak are addressed separately. The second part deals with the genesis and development of the kecak from the 1930s onward, exploring how it became and stayed a tourist genre for more than eighty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Part 1: the Presence Chapter 1. Kecak -- The Music Rhythmic structures: juru klempung, juru gending (first part), pola cak  Intermission: scales in kecak  Melodic elements: juru gending (second part), juru tembang, and pangalang   The lead: juru tarek and dalang   Use of stage space by the jurus and pengecaks  Chapter 2. Kecak -- The Dance Movements of the pengecak group  Genre influences on the solo characters' movements  Balinese dance characterization: halus, keras, and kasar  The solo characters' individual dance styles  Choreomusical interrelations between pengecaks and soloists in music and dance  Chapter 3. Kecak -- The Drama Ramayana kakawin  Ramayana adaptations in Balinese performing arts  The kecak compromise: stage design, story, entrances  The Kecak Ramayana  \"Kepandung Sita\" kecak performance  Chapter 4. The Social Organization of Kecak Aims and structures of kecak organizations and groups  The members of a kecak group  Teaching a kecak group  Performance quality and performance quantity  Chapter 5. Kecak -- The Tourist Performance The study of tourism and culture  The development of cultural tourism on Bali  Kecak in cultural tourism  Tourists' perspectives  The authenticity issue  Some concluding remarks on kecak in tourism   Part 2: The History Chapter 6. From Sanghyang Dedari to Kecak Ritual structures  Musical structures  Dance structures  Sanghyang dedari in the early twenty-first century  Performing sanghyang dedari on film and on stage  Sanghyang dedari in performance at the end of the twentieth century  Chapter 7. The First Kecak 1931: Kecak in \"Insel der Dämonen\"?  1926 to 1931: Changes in setting, choreography, and music  Related kecak experiments in the 1920s and 1930s: Janger  1935: Kecak documented by Vicki Baum  Villages and organizations: Bedulu and Bona  Balinese artists: I Wayan Limbak and I Nengah Mudarya  Expatriates: Walter Spies and Katharane Mershon  Colonial power structures  Who created the kecak?  Chapter 8. Almost a Century of Kecak 1930s-1940s: Kecak becomes a tourist attraction  Development in Bona and Bedulu  Early tourists' conceptions of the kecak  During and after the Second World War: Kecak deadlocked  After the coup d'état and political persecution: Kecak standardization  The early twenty-first century: The Bali bombings  An alternative kecak approach: Kecak kreasi  Some concluding remarks: Does the kecak have a future?  Appendixes 1.     Kecak dan Wisata Budaya di Bali (Indonesian Summary) 2.     Kecak Groups of Bali in 2000-2001 (Badung and Gianyar) 3.     Facsimile of a letter from Walter Spies to Leo Spies, 1932 Glossary Bibliography Index","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49411179413847,"sku":"9781648250316","price":99.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781648250316.jpg?v=1730512687","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-kecak-and-cultural-tourism-on-bali-9781648250316","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}