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Bittersweet sounds of passage : Balinese gamelan angklung cremation music / Ellen Koskoff.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3758.I537 B355 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koskoff, Ellen, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gamelan angklung music--Indonesia--Bali Island--History and criticism.
- Gamelan angklung music.
- Gamelan angklung music--Indonesia--Bali Island--Analysis, appreciation.
- Funeral music--Indonesia--Bali Island--History and criticism.
- Funeral music.
- Gamelan angklung--Indonesia--Bali Island--History.
- Gamelan angklung.
- Music--Social aspects--Indonesia--Bali Island.
- Music.
- Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies--Indonesia--Bali Island.
- Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Cremation--Indonesia--Bali Island.
- Cremation.
- Bali Island (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.
- Bali Island (Indonesia).
- Physical Description:
- xx, 193 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : 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. Koskoff examines gamelan angklung's cremation music and structures in three stages. First, she delves into the pieces across each stylistic category by charting differences in their tempos, pacing, general contours, and other characteristics. From there, Koskoff pivots to the pieces within each stylistic category to determine the specific grammar associated with each style. Finally, she presents the musical and emotional flow of actual cremations to show how the selection of pieces helps participants create and maintain the controlled emotional state needed for the ritual. A journey inside a tradition, Bittersweet Sounds of Passage looks at the overlooked music of an important ritual in Balinese village life"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780252046629
- 0252046625
- 9780252088735
- 0252088735
- OCLC:
- 1464590571
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