American gamelan and the ethnomusicological imagination / Elizabeth A. Clendinning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clendinning, Elizabeth A., 1987- author.

Series:

Illinois scholarship online.

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gamelan--United States.

Gamelan.

Ethnomusicology--United States.

Ethnomusicology.

Gamelan--Instruction and study--United States--History.

Music--United States--Indonesian influences.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.

Summary:

This text seeks to answer these questions: Why are there more than 150 gamelans (Indonesian percussion ensembles) in North America, and why are more than half of them associated with American colleges and universities? How and why did gamelan ensembles spark the ethnomusicological imagination? What impact have these ensembles had on college music programs, their local communities, and transnational Indonesian performing arts scenes? How does a lifetime of teaching foreign college students shape the lives of non-American music teachers?

Contents:

Interlocking Sounds, Interlocking Communities

Early Encounters in Bimusicality

From Bali to America : Teachers and Transitions

Creating and Conceptualizing a Balinese American Gamelan Community

Teaching, Learning, Representing

Americans Learning Gamelan in Bali

Kembali : To Return or Change

Bimusicality and Beyond

Sustainability and the Academic World Music Ensemble

Cultivating New Flowers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 30, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

ISBN:

9780252043383

0252043383