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Bittersweet sounds of passage : Balinese gamelan angklung cremation music / Ellen Koskoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koskoff, Ellen, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bali Island (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.
- Bali Island (Indonesia).
- Indonesia.
- Indonesia--Bali Island.
- Cremation--Indonesia--Bali Island.
- Cremation.
- Funeral music--Indonesia--Bali Island--History and criticism.
- Funeral music.
- Gamelan angklung--Indonesia--Bali Island--History.
- Gamelan angklung.
- Gamelan angklung music--Indonesia--Bali Island--History and criticism.
- Gamelan angklung music.
- Gamelan angklung music--Indonesia--Bali Island--Analysis, appreciation.
- Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies--Indonesia--Bali Island.
- Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Music--Social aspects--Indonesia--Bali Island.
- Music.
- Funeral music--History and criticism.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Champaign : University of Illinois Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "An important presence through centuries of musical and social change, gamelan angklung is a small, four-tone bronze-keyed ensemble that remains ubiquitous at cremations in Bali. Ellen Koskoff offers a compelling portrait of these little-studied orchestras and their members: rice farmers, eatery owners, and other locals who do not see themselves as musicians or what they play as music.pKoskoff examines the history, cultural significance, and musical structures of contemporary gamelan angklung cremation music through the lens of three intertwined stories: existing scholarship on this music, written mostly by Western composers and scholars; the views of those performing and experiencing the music who regard it as dharma--ritual obligation, a basic concept in Balinese Hinduism; and the music itself, with a musical analysis focusing on changes in irasa/i--feeling, flavor and musical flow.pA journey inside a tradition, iBittersweet Sounds of Passage/i reveals the overlooked music of an important ritual in Balinese village life."-- From JSTOR.
- Contents:
- Balinese village life
- Gamelan angklung today
- Gamelan angklung scholarship and its legacies
- Three possible gamelan angklung ancestors
- Work for the dead
- Work for the community
- Gamelan angklung cremation music today
- Flow-paths
- In the context of performance,
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 4, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Koskoff, Ellen. Bittersweet sounds of passage.
- ISBN:
- 9780252047930
- 0252047931
- OCLC:
- 1520470436
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000243919
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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