Gongs and pop songs : sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia / Jennifer A. Fraser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraser, Jennifer A., author.

Series:

Research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 127.

Ohio University research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; number 127

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Indonesia--Sumatera Barat--History and criticism.

Music.

Minangkabau (Indonesian people)--Music--History and criticism.

Minangkabau (Indonesian people).

Talempong--Indonesia--Sumatera Barat.

Talempong.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this tendency by exploring a little-known gong tradition from Sumatra called talempong, long associated with people who identify themselves as Minangkabau. Grounded in rich ethnographic data and supplemented with online audiovisual materials, Gongs and Pop Songs is the first study to chronicle the history and variety of talempong styles. It reveal

Contents:

Ethnicity, gongs, and pop songs

Talempong and community

Institutionalizing Minangkabau arts

Reforming talempong

Talempong in the marketplace

Multiple ways of sounding Minangkabau.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-89680-490-9

OCLC:

914355556