Javanese Gamelan and the West - 9781580464451

Javanese Gamelan and the WestAuthor(s): Sumarsam\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: University of Rochester Press\nISBN-13: 9781580464451, 978-1580464451\nSynopsis\nPreeminant gamelan performer and scholar Sumarsam explores the concept of hybridity in performance traditions that have developed in the context of Javanese encounters with the West.\n\nJavanese Gamelan and the West studies the meaning, forms, and traditions of the Javanese performing arts as they developed and changed through their contact with Western culture. Authored by a gamelan performer, teacher, and scholar, the book traces the adaptations in gamelan art as a result of Western colonialism in nineteenth-century Java, showing how Western musical and dramatic practices were domesticated by Javanese performers creating hybrid Javanese-Western art forms, such as with the introduction of brass bands in gendhing mares court music and West Javanese tanjidor, and Western theatr.