Full Description
For the modern West, Bali has long served as an icon of exotic pre-modern innocence. Yet the reality of modern Bali stands in stark contrast to this prevailing and enduring image, a contrast embodied by a movement of local musical experimentation, musik kontemporer, which emerged in the 1970s and which still thrives today. In Radical Traditions, author Andrew Clay McGraw shows how music kontemporer embodies the tensions between culture as represented and lived, between the idea of Balinese culture and the experience of living it. Through a highly interdisciplinary approach informed by ethnomusicology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, anthropology, and theater studies, McGraw presents an all-encompassing social and musical history of musik kontemporer, and its intersections with class, ethnicity, and globalization. As the first English language monograph on this important Indonesian musical genre, Radical Traditions is an essential resource for anyone fascinated by modern Indonesian and Balinese music and culture.
Contents
Acknowledgements ; About the Companion Website ; Musical Examples ; Technical Notes ; Brief Glossary ; Map of Bali ; Preface: Encounter ; Prelude: Gerausch, Setting the Scene ; 1) Introduction: Radical Traditions ; 2) Placing Bali in the Global Aesthetic Network ; 3) Kosong: Developing Culture in the Empty New Order (1966-1998) ; 4) Moha: Aesthetic and Social Dissensus in the Reformation (1998-) ; 5) Teori and the Komposer ; 6) The Technologies and Materials of Musik Kontemporer ; 7) Ombak: Time, Energy, and Homology in the Analysis of Balinese Music ; 8) The Semiotics of Musik Kontemporer ; 9) Musik Kontemporer and Intercultural Performance ; Conclusion: Reimagining Culture in Bali ; Bibliography ; Index
