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Srikandhi Dances Lènggèr A Performance of Music and Shadow Theater in Central Java by René T. A. Lysloff is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Srikandhi Dances Lènggèr A Performance of Music and Shadow Theater in Central Java about?
The book is structured around the translation of a Javanese shadow theater performance entitled Srikandhi Mbarang Lengger ( Srikandhi Becomes an Itinerant Dancer or Srikandhi Dances Lengger ), performed only in the Banyumas region (in west Central Java) by the locally renowned puppeteer, Ki Sugino Siswocarito. This study is a translation of the story both in a strict textual-linguistic sense and in a more general interpretive sense, providing an understanding of what the performance means to its Banyumas audience. More important, it shows how the puppeteer transforms the culturally universal traditions of Javanese ritual, shadow-puppet theater, and music to particularize the entire performance event for a local audience. The book is three things: a major conceptual study that develops, advocates, and applies an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the performance process, an important secondary source on rural Javanese culture and arts (most works on Java focus on the court centers), and a useful primary source on wayang theater since it includes the Javanese text and English translation of a complete story with music transcriptions provided in an appendix. The Javanes
Who reads Srikandhi Dances Lènggèr A Performance of Music and Shadow Theater in Central Java?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- René T. A. Lysloff
- Publisher
- Brill
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789067182980
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Music, Science