Sounding the dance, moving the music : choreomusicology in maritime Southeast Asia / edited by Mohd Anis Md Nor and Kendra Stepputat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mohd. Anis Md. Nor, 1955-

Stepputat, Kendra.

Series:

SOAS musicology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and dance--Southeast Asia.

Music and dance.

Dance music--Southeast Asia--History and criticism.

Dance music.

Dance--Southeast Asia--History and criticism.

Dance.

Southeast Asia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 193 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

Performing arts in most parts of Maritime Southeast Asia are seen as an entity where music and dance, sound and movement, acoustic and tactile elements intermingle and complement each other. Although this fact is widely known and referenced, most scholarly works in the performing arts so far have either focused on 'music' or 'dance' rather than treating the two in combination. The authors in this book look at both aspects in performance. Moreover, they focus explicitly on the interrelation between the two, on both descriptive-analytical and metaphorical levels. The book includes diverse examples of regional performing art genres from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. All case studies are composed from the perspective of the relatively new approach and field of ethno-choreomusicology. This particular compilation gives an exemplary overview of various phenomena in movement-sound relations, and offers for the first time a thorough study of the phenomenon that is considered essential for the performing arts in Maritime Southeast Asia - the inseparability of movement and sound. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Understanding performance in Maritime Southeast Asia: rethinking paradigms and discourses, an introduction / Ricardo D. Trimillos Trimillos, Ricardo D. 1

2 Sonic and tactile dimensions of Sundanese dance / Henry Spiller Spiller, Henry 13

3 The Balinese kecak: an exemplification of sonic and visual (inter)relations / Kendra Stepputat Stepputat, Kendra 31

4 Persistent mutualisms: energizing the symbiotic relationship between Balinese dancer and drummer / Made Mantle Hood Hood, Made Mantle 42

5 Cari... Cari... Cari!: filling the interstices of music and dance in Zapin Johor / Mohd Anis Md Nor Nor, Mohd Anis Md 57

6 Necessary (re)unions: revisiting and revising studies on the Sama igal dance and kulinlangan ensemble music traditions / MCM Santamaria Santamaria, MCM 67

7 Playing the body: female versus male elements in Aceh's sitting song-dances with body percussion / Margaret Kartomi Kartomi, Margaret 80

8 The body as intersection: interaction and collaboration of voice, body and music in Balinese arja / Ako Mashino Mashino, Ako 96

9 Shadow puppets, drums and gongs: movement-music relationships in a theatrical genre / Patricia Matusky Matusky, Patricia 108

10 Dancing the sound, musicking the movement: contextual dialogues between music and dance in northern Borneo / Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan Pugh-Kitingan, Jacqueline 122

11 Performing community, identity and change: the Chinese dragon leaps to the beat / Tan Sooi Beng Beng, Tan Sooi 133

12 Gendang beleq: the negotiation of a music/dance form in Lombok, Indonesia / David Harnish Harnish, David 148

13 The Orak Lawoipelacak festival: how music and movement connects an erstwhile semi-nomadic people to their vanishing history, environment and culture / Lawrence Ross Ross, Lawrence 162

14 Moving music: the performing arts, space and travel among the Sama Dilaut / Birgit Abels Abels, Birgit 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781472469236

1472469232

1472469240

9781472469243

OCLC:

954424399