| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
Java and Bali on international stages, 1905-1952 |
| Author: |
CohenMatthew Isaac., |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
New York, NY |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xiil, 285 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Studies in international performance |
| Subject: |
Performing arts - Indonesian influences. - Europe - |
| Subject: |
Performing arts - Indonesian influences. - United States - |
| Subject: |
PERFORMING ARTS / Reference - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230309005 |
| Summary: |
Today one finds many non-Indonesians studying gamelan. Dancers, musicians and puppeteers from Java and Bali are employed internationally, and Indonesian instruments are sampled in commercials. Performing Otherness explores an earlier period when Indonesian arts were internationally scarce, and the performance of a whole troupe from Java or Bali could spark an artistic revolution. Focusing on the late colonial period and the transition to independence, Performing Otherness encompasses the work and lives of dozens of performing artists (including Mata Hari, Artaud and Ruth St Denis) to delve into the international and wide-ranging influence of Javanese and Balinese performance. This book presents a fascinating critical history of representations of Java and Bali in Europe, the US, India and elsewhere around the world: Javanese 'temple dance' and wayang golek puppetry in fin-de-s�icle Vienna; music and dance programmes mixing Gershwin and Java in jazz-age New York; a summer school for dancers in southern France run by a Javanese aristocrat; an arena spectacle at the foothills of the Himalayas inspired by Javanese shadow puppets; a gamelan performing nightly in a Chicago nightclub. |
| ISBN: |
9780230309005electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230309003electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
List of Figures Preface and Acknowledgements Note on Orthography and Writing Conventions Introduction: The Spectacle of Otherness Mata Hari Wayang as Technology Eva Gauthier, From Java to Jazz Stella Bloch and 'up-to-date' Java Raden Mas Jodjana and Company Magical Identification with Bali in France Greater India Devi Dja goes Hollywood Aftermath: Decolonization Glossary Selected bibliography Notes Index. Introduction : the spectacle of otherness Mata Hari Wayang as technology Eva Gauthier, from Java to jazz Stella Bloch and 'up to date' Java Raden Mas Jodjana and company Magical identification with Bali in France Greater India Devi Dja goes Hollywood Aftermath : decolonization. |