Srikandhi dances lnggr : a performance of music and shadow theater / Rene T.A. Lysloff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lysloff, Rene T. A.

Series:

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 248.

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1572-1892 ; 248

Language:

English

Javanese

Subjects (All):

Wayang.

Wayang plays.

Music--Indonesia--Banyumas (Kabupaten)--History and criticism.

Music.

Gamelan music.

Sugino, Ki. Srikandhi mbarang lengger.

Sugino.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (583 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Srikandhi dances lnggr : a performance of music and shadow theater in Central Java

Place of Publication:

Leiden : KITLV Press, 2009.

Language Note:

Javanese

Summary:

The book is structured around the translation of a Javanese shadow theater performance entitled Srikandhi Mbarang Lènggèr (“Srikandhi Becomes an Itinerant Dancer” or “Srikandhi Dances Lènggèr”), performed only in the Banyumas region (in west Central Java) by the locally renowned puppeteer, Ki Sugino Siswocarito. This study is a translation of the story both in a strict textual-linguistic sense and in a more general interpretive sense, providing an understanding of what the performance means to its Banyumas audience. More important, it shows how the puppeteer transforms the culturally universal traditions of Javanese ritual, shadow-puppet theater, and music to particularize the entire performance event for a local audience. The book is three things: a major conceptual study that develops, advocates, and applies an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the performance process, an important secondary source on rural Javanese culture and arts (most works on Java focus on the court centers), and a useful primary source on wayang theater—since it includes the Javanese text and English translation of a complete story with music transcriptions provided in an appendix. The Javanese texts and their English translations are laid out side by side to facilitate reading while listening to the audio recording on the enclosed dvd. The book contains twenty-five beautifully rendered illustrations of Banyumas-style wayang puppets (major characters in the story) by two Javanese artists.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / René T.A. Lysloff

Cultural universals and local traditions / René T.A. Lysloff

Shadow theater as a cultural institution / René T.A. Lysloff

The temporal organization of wayang kulit / René T.A. Lysloff

Wayang temporalities / René T.A. Lysloff

Sugino and his audience / René T.A. Lysloff

Music and intra-cultural difference / René T.A. Lysloff

Synopsis / René T.A. Lysloff

Act 1: Pathet nem / René T.A. Lysloff

Interlude: Gara-gara / René T.A. Lysloff

Act 2: Pathet sanga / René T.A. Lysloff

Act 3: Pathet manyura / René T.A. Lysloff

Appendices / René T.A. Lysloff

Bibliography / René T.A. Lysloff

Index / René T.A. Lysloff.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-558) and index.

Contains:

Sugino, Ki. Srikandhi mbarang lengger.

ISBN:

90-04-25384-X

OCLC:

858762221

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004253841 DOI