Stunning males and powerful females : gender and tradition in East Javanese dance / Christina Sunardi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sunardi, Christina, author.

Series:

New perspectives on gender in music.

New Perspectives on Gender in Music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk dancing, Javanese--Indonesia--Java.

Folk dancing, Javanese.

Dance--Indonesia--Java.

Dance.

Dance--Social aspects--Indonesia--Java.

Dance--Sex differences.

Java (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.

Java (Indonesia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Christina Sunardi ventures into the regency of Malang in east Java to study and perform with dancers. Through formal interviews and casual conversation, Sunardi learns about their lives and art. Her work shows how performers continually transform dance traditions to negotiate, and renegotiate, the boundaries of gender and sex - sometimes reinforcing lines of demarcation, sometimes transgressing them, and sometimes doing both simultaneously.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Contents""; ""Note on Conventions""; ""Preface: Inspiration""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Aims and Approaches""; ""2. Maintaining Female Power through Male Style Dance""; ""3. Negotiating Pressures in Terms of Gender: Male Dancers and Female Style Dance""; ""4. Constructing Gender and Tradition through Senses of History""; ""5. Maintaining the Representation of Female Power through Beskalan Putri""; ""6. Where Tradition, Power, and Gender Intersect: Performer Interactions""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252096914

0252096916

OCLC:

900193995