Full Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
Although the history of Indonesian music has received much attention from ethnomusicologists and Western composers alike, almost nothing has been written on the interaction of missionaries with local culture. This study represents the first attempt to concentrate on the musical dimension of missionary activities in Indonesia. In fourteen essays, a group of distinguished scholars show the complexity of the topic: while some missionaries did important scholarship on local music, making recordings and attempting to use local music in services, others tried to suppress whatever they found. Many were collaborating closely with anthropologists who admitted freely that they could not have done their work without them. And both parties brought colonial biases into their work. By grappling with these realities and records, this book is a collective effort to decolonize the project of making music histories.
Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller
PART I. EARLY MODERN MUSIC HISTORY IN INDONESIA
1. Iberian Sources for the Historiography of Musics in the Early Modern Moluccas (Maluku)
David R. M. Irving
2. A European Music Treatise Published in Late Eighteenth-Century Batavia (Jakarta)
Estelle Joubert and David R. M. Irving
PART II. MISSIONARIES AND LOCAL MUSIC IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
3. "I am in no way surprised that the Javanese can listen to it all night long": A Nineteenth-Century Dutch Missionary on Javanese Music
Henry Spiller
4. The Issue of the Javanese Church Songs
Bernard Arps
PART III. LOCAL CHURCH MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
5. The Heathen in His Blindness? Missionaries, Empire, and Anti-colonialism
David A. Hollinger
6. "Sing, Choirs of New Jerusalem": Hymnody and Sincerity in the Christian Tobalands
Julia Byl
7. A Missional Legacy: Musik Inkulturasi and Printing Localized Catholic Hymnals in Indonesia
Emilie Rook
8. Gaya X: An Ethnomusicological Look at Lagu Inkulturasi
Philip Yampolsky
PART IV. MISSIONARIES AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS
9. Reconsidering the Place of Missionaries in Ethnomusicological History: Jaap Kunst and the Fathers of the Divine Word in Flores
Dustin Wiebe
10. Jaap Kunst and the German Missionaries in Nias
Anna Maria Busse Berger
PART V. TECHNOLOGIES OF INDOCTRINATION
11. History and Mythology in Javanese Performing Arts
Sumarsam
12. Dakwah, Missionizing, and Wayang: Hindu, Islamic, Christian, Buddhist
Kathy Foley
PART VI. TECHNOLOGIES OF PRESERVATION: ARCHIVES
13. Has "God" Made the Apparatus? Missionaries as Phonographic Mediators in New Guinea and Melanesia
Sebastian Klotz
14. Epistemic Shifts and Ideological Persistence: Ethnographic, Archival, and Historiographical Practices in the Legacy of Jaap Kunst
Barbara Titus
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
