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A richly illustrated study of wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, based on unprecedented decades-long participatory research.
Wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, fascinates and endures thanks to the many ways it works as a medium—bearing the weight of Javanese culture and tradition as a key component of rites of passage, as a medium of ritual and spiritual practice, as public spectacle, and as entertainment of the broadest sort, performed live, broadcast, or streamed. Over the past forty years, the form has been subject to a great deal of experimentation and innovation, pulled in many directions within an ever-changing media landscape. In this book, Kathryn Anne Emerson outlines both significant contributions by a number of key figures and the social and political influences propelling such innovations. She also describes deeper and more lasting changes in wayang, based on what the art form's most accomplished practitioners have to say about it. At the core of the book is one pivotal figure, Purbo Asmoro of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Surakarta, who, Emerson argues, has taken the individual and singular innovations of the era and integrated them into a new system of performance practice, one that has shaped the key Surakarta school of performance. Grounded in an unprecedented, decades-long participatory research project involving hundreds of interlocutors, the book is beautifully illustrated and will be of considerable interest in Indonesian studies.
Contents
List of Illustrations, Tables, and Charts
Acknowledgements
Basic Terminology
Guide to Illustrative Audio-Video Clips
Variant Spellings
Map of Java
Introduction
Part One: Historical Perspective
Classical Style
Condensed Style
Birth of an Idea: All-Night Interpretive Style or Garapan
Rise to Fame in the Age of the Entertainment Interlude
Part Two: All-Night Interpretive (Garapan) Style
A New Vocabulary for Wayang Accompaniment
The Prologue
Creating Dramatic Hierarchy: a New Level of Intensity
Multi-Episode Constructions
In the Hands of Other Practitioners
Passing on the Art
Going Virtual Amid a Pandemic: An Unexpected Third Rail
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
