Full Description
This longitudinal study weaves the complex stories of many disparate musics into an account of quests for identities that illuminates Lombok's history, its complex religious and ethnic composition, and its current political circumstances. It focuses on agents, musicians and leaders on the ground, and the socioreligious and artistic changes that transformed many music forms. The book outlines the years of political difficulty for music and years of transition and government interventions to remake musics, and identifies the emerging ideologies and developments that laid the groundwork for a diversity of musics - traditional, Islamic, popular - to simultaneously exist in an unprecedented way.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Orthography, Terms, and Names
Introduction
Setting the Scene
1 Histories and Religions
2 Musics of Lombok
3 People and Places
4 Fieldwork Histories
5 Organizing Music and Identity
1 Change, Religion, and Identity in Music Cultures
1 Religion, Religious Identities, and Interreligious Relationships
2 Constructing and Dismantling Pluralism and Tolerance
3 Modernity and Change
4 Politicizing Identities and Musics
5 Changing Islams and a Sasak Movement
6 Music and Identity
7 Sonic Identities and Situating 'Tradition'
8 Exploring Change on Lombok
2 'Traditional' Musics
Functions, Contestations, Interpretations
1 Gamelan-type Ensembles
2 Gamelan Gong Sasak/Gong Kebyar
3 Vocal Music
4 Sacred Forms
5 Other Dance and Theatre
6 Summary
3 The Phenomenon of Gendang Beleq
1 From Ritual to Stage
2 Transitions
3 Analysis of Chapter
4 Wayang Sasak
Shadowplay, Practices, Elements, and Narratives
1 Symbolism, Characters, and Identity
2 Accompaniment
3 Government Interventions
4 Situating Puppeteers and Processes
5 The Situation Today and Tomorrow
5 Music, Islam, and Islamization
1 Islam on Lombok
2 Issues of Music and Islam
3 Musik Islam
4 Zikrsamman
5 Marawis
6 Tongkek
7 Realizations of Burdah, Hadrah, and Rebana Burdah
8 Synthesis
6 Popular Musics and 'Musik Rakyat'
1 Weddings
2 Musik Rakyat: Gambus, Cilokaq, Kecimol Asli, and Amaq Sadar
3 Musik Rakyat on the Street: Gula Gending and Selober
4 Popular Musics: Cultural and Gender Identities, and Erni Ayuningsih
5 Global Styles and Novi Bhavan
6 Synthesis: Intersections and Divergences of Folk and Popular Musics
7 Minority Musics of Lombok
1 Overview of Other Musics of Minority Populations
2 Sasak Buddhists, Rituals, and Musics
3 Lombok Balinese Music Culture
4 Summary of Chapter
8 Nexus of Sasak/Balinese Interaction
The Lingsar Festival
1 Reflective Takes on the Site, the Festival, and the Participants
2 Agamaization
3 Bridges to the Ancestors
4 Politicizing Lingsar: Contestation, Narratives, and the State
5 Tolerance of Ambiguity
6 A Long View
9 Performing Arts Education and Issues of Sustainability
1 Between Apathy and Sustainability
2 Indonesian Nation-building
3 Mochammad Yamin and lpsn
4 The Bidang Kesenian
5 Arts Education in the 21st Century
6 Contextualizing Benefits of Music Sustainability
7 Concluding Thoughts
10 Conclusion
Making Sense of All of This
1 Musics as Representation
2 Histories of Change
3 Ambivalence, Sociopolitical Identities, and the Arts
4 Final Thoughts on Musics and Identities
Bibliography
Index
