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Jaranan : the horse dance and trance in East Java / Victoria M. Clara van Groenendael ; translated by Maria J.L. van Yperen.
Penn Museum Library GV1703.I532 J394 2008 1 v. + CD
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Groenendael, Victoria M. Clara van.
- Series:
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 252.
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 252
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Javanese
- Subjects (All):
- Folk dancing, Javanese--Indonesia--Jawa Timur.
- Folk dancing, Javanese.
- Ecstatic dance--Indonesia--Jawa Timur.
- Ecstatic dance.
- Trance--Indonesia--Jawa Timur.
- Trance.
- Jawa Timur (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.
- Jawa Timur (Indonesia).
- Indonesia--Jawa Timur.
- Physical Description:
- x, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : KITLV Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English with some Javanese; translated from the original Dutch.
- Summary:
- The dramatic genre of the horse dance (jaranan) is part of an age-old Javanese tradition displaying wide local and regional variations. A striking feature of the performances of the majority of horse-dance groups is the appearance of trance dancers. These are used as a means of establishing contact with the spirits of the ancestors, who continue to play an important part in the lives of their descendants as moral beacons in the solution of problems and the fulfillment of wishes. As a consequence of the modernization of society in almost every aspect of life, vigorously propagated as it was by the Soeharto regime in the period 1966-1998, the trance in horse dancing has been strongly discouraged as an anachronism.
- This has prompted a search for new ways of preserving this dramatic genre for future generations. The way the administration of Kediri and a number of local horse-dance companies set about solving this problem constitutes a dominant theme of this book. To bring the phenomenon of the horse dance in Java into sharper focus, a brief account is given of its history, as well as a description of the great variety of horse-dance groups and a range of aspects of this genre. Book jacket.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-284) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789067183062
- 9067183067
- OCLC:
- 225876227
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