Performing contemporary Indonesia : celebrating identity, constructing community / edited by Barbara Hatley with Brett Hough.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hatley, Barbara, editor.

Hough, Brett, editor.

Series:

Southeast Asia mediated ; Volume 6.

Southeast Asia Mediated ; Volume 6

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Landen Volkenkunde, 1572-1892 ; Volume 297

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Social aspects--Indonesia.

Performing arts.

Performing arts--Political aspects--Indonesia.

Theater and society--Indonesia.

Theater and society.

Arts and society--Indonesia.

Arts and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Performance events have long had a central place in Indonesian societies in displaying power, affirming social relations, celebrating shared values, and at times conveying potent political critique. How have they responded to the momentous social and political changes of recent years - the dismantling of the centralised, authoritarian Suharto regime and its replacement with a more open, regionally-focused political system, the rapid expansion of global cultural influence? Investigations of diverse performance genres from different regions illustrate the way general socio-political processes play out locally, and how particular groups are responding. Exploring performed understandings of identity and community, such studies expand knowledge of a complex, contested period of change in Indonesia and the workings of contemporary performance in giving it expression. With contributions by Chua Beng Huat, Alexandra Crosby, Barbara Hatley, Ariel Heryanto, Brett Hough, Rachmah Ida, Reza Idria, Edwin Jurriens, Yoshi Fajar Kresno Murti, Neneng Yanti K Lahpan, Ugoran Prasad, Wawan Sofwan, Aline Scott-Maxwell, Fridus Steijlen, Alia Swastika, Denise Varney.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Barbara Hatley and Brett Hough

Introduction: Performance in Contemporary Indonesia – Surveying the Scene / Barbara Hatley

Contemporary Performance in Central Java – Staging Identities, Constructing Communities / Barbara Hatley

Babad Kampung’: Celebrating History and Neighbourhood Identity in Yogyakarta / Yoshi Fajar Kresno Murti

Relocating Kampung, Rethinking Community: Salatiga’s ‘Festival Mata Air’ / Alexandra Crosby

Imagining Community in Contemporary Surabaya / Rachmah Ida

Shaping Spaces: Video Art Communities in Indonesia / Edwin Jurriëns

Balinese Cultural Communities and Scenes / Brett Hough

The Sundanese-language Drama Festival: Celebrating Local Cultural Identity in West Java / Neneng Lahpan and Wawan Sofwan

Two Stages for Performance in Aceh: From State Conflict to Syariah Politics / Reza Idria

Representing Indonesia in Australia through Performance: Communities, Collaborations, Identities / Aline Scott-Maxwell

Indo-European Pasar Malam, Identity and Performance in the Netherlands / Fridus Steijlen

Audiences and Arts Spaces in Jakarta Post-1998 / Alia Swastika

Notes from the 2009 Symposium on Performance in Indonesia / Ugoran Prasad

Concluding Comments: Identity, Community and the Marketplace in Contemporary Indonesian Performance / Ariel Heryanto , Chua Beng Huat and Denise Varney

Index / Barbara Hatley and Brett Hough.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28493-1

OCLC:

892514378

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004284937 DOI