This book examines the ways in which the urban aristocratic Sundanese of West Java recall the rural past of their ancestors through performances of the tembang Sunda ensemble (voice, zithers, and bamboo flute). This is the first book on Indonesian music that focuses on a non-gamelan ensemble as well as the first book to highlight Sundanese cosmological and cultural practices through an examination of musical performance. It reveals some of the musical tensions and points of connection between men and women, rural people and ...
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This book examines the ways in which the urban aristocratic Sundanese of West Java recall the rural past of their ancestors through performances of the tembang Sunda ensemble (voice, zithers, and bamboo flute). This is the first book on Indonesian music that focuses on a non-gamelan ensemble as well as the first book to highlight Sundanese cosmological and cultural practices through an examination of musical performance. It reveals some of the musical tensions and points of connection between men and women, rural people and urbanites, and the classes. Illustrated with photographs and brief musical examples, this book also includes a CD.
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Add this copy of The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West to cart. $150.00, very good condition, Sold by The Chatham Bookseller rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Madison, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Oxford University Press.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. 8vo. 276 pp.; includes CD Rom. Dark blue paper-covered boards with silver lettering on front and spine. Clean, square and tight throughout. In fine condition but for nearly invisible scratches on rear board. From its beginnings as a very localized music tradition in the small Indonsian regency of Cianjur, tembang Sunda spread across West Java and was relocated in Bandung, a large urban center in the highlands of West Java. This book is a study of the effects of the subsequent urbanization of the genre on both practitioners and audience members.
