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Dangdut Stories

A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's Most Popular Music

By: Andrew N. Weintraub

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Dangdut Stories

A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's Most Popular Music

By: Andrew N. Weintraub

A keen critic of culture in modern Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub shows how a genre of Indonesian music called dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indonesian cultural politics and the commercial music industry. Dangdut Stories is a social and musical history of dangdut within a range of broader narratives about class, gender, ethnicity, and nation in post-independence Indonesia (1945-present).

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Oxford University Press

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0199889597

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9780199889594

Power Plays

Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java

By: Andrew Noah Weintraub

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Power Plays

Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java

By: Andrew Noah Weintraub

Based on ethnographic fieldwork spanning twenty years, Power Plays is the first scholarly book in English on wayang golek, the Sundanese rod-puppet theater of West Java. It is a detailed and lively account of the ways in which performers of this major Asian theatrical form have engaged with political discourses in Indonesia. Wayang golek has shaped, as well, the technological and commercial conditions of art and performance in a modernizing society. Using interviews with performers, musical transcriptions, translations of narrative and song texts, and archival materials, author Andrew N. Weintraub analyzes the shifting and flexible nature of a set of performance practices called Padalangan, the art of the puppeteer. He focuses on "superstar" performers and the musical troupes that dominated wayang golek during the New Order political regime of former president Suharto (1966-98) and the ensuing three years of the post-Suharto period. Studies of actual performances illuminate stylistic and formal elements and situate wayang golek as a social process in Sundanese culture and society. Power Plays includes an interactive multimedia CD-ROM of wayang golek. Power Plays shows how meanings about identity, citizenship, and community are produced through theater, music, language, and discourse. While based in ethnographic theory and methods, this book is at the center of a new synthesis emerging among ethnomusicology, anthropology, and cultural studies. Its cross-disciplinary approach will inspire researchers studying similar struggles over cultural authority and popular representation in culture and the performing arts.

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Ohio University Press

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089680240X

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Dangdut Stories

A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's Most Popular Music

By: Andrew N. Weintraub

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A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's Most Popular Music

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Making Waves

Traveling Musics in Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific

By: Frederick Lau,Christine R. Yano

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Making Waves

Traveling Musics in Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific

By: Frederick Lau,Christine R. Yano

Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes), satellite broadcasting, digital downloads, and streaming. The introductory chapter by the volume editors develops two framing metaphors: “traveling musics” and “making waves.” The wave-making metaphor illuminates the ways that traveling musics traverse flows of globalization and migration, initiating change, and generating energy of their own. Each of the nine contributors further examines music—its songs, makers, instruments, aurality, aesthetics, and images—as it crosses oceans, continents, and islands. In the process of landing in new homes, music interacts with older established cultural environments, sometimes in unexpected ways and with surprising results. They see these traveling musics in Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific as “making waves”—that is, not only riding flows of globalism, but instigating ripples of change. What is the nature of those ripples? What constitutes some of the infrastructure for the wave itself? What are some of the effects of music landing on, transported to, or appropriated from distant shores? How does the Hawai‘i-Asia-Pacific context itself shape and get shaped by these musical waves? The two poetic and evocative metaphors allow the individual contributors great leeway in charting their own course while simultaneously referring back to the influence of their mentor and colleague Ricardo D. Trimillos, whom they identify as “the wave maker.” The volume attempts to position music as at once ritual and entertainment, esoteric and exoteric, tradition and creativity, within the cultural geographies of Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific. In doing so, they situate music at the very core of global human endeavors.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824874870

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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

By: Andrew Carnegie

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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

By: Andrew Carnegie

This is the autobiography by the richest man of his time, after Rockfeller, who donated most of his fortune to establish schools and universities in many countries.

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1609421981

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Andrew Carnegie's College Lectures: Wealth and Its Uses, in the (Butterfield) Practical Course, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. Business, Founder's D

By: Andrew Carnegie,Daniel Butterfield

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Andrew Carnegie's College Lectures: Wealth and Its Uses, in the (Butterfield) Practical Course, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. Business, Founder's D

By: Andrew Carnegie,Daniel Butterfield

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Sagwan Press

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1377115240

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Dangdut Stories

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Making Waves

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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie's College Lectures: Wealth and Its Uses, in the (Butterfield) Practical Course, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. Business, Founder's D

Andrew Carnegie's College Lectures: Wealth and Its Uses, in the (Butterfield) Practical Course, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. Business, Founder's D

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