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Gamelan: The Traditional Sounds of Indonesia (review)

Gamelan: The Traditional Sounds of Indonesia (review) B OOK R EV IEWS the twentieth century. As she continues her analysis, she can bring us toward wider understanding of the art of performance. It is unfortunate that the high cost of the book will make it more likely to find its way into library holdings than into the personal libraries of students of these arts. K athy Foley University of California­Santa Cruz GAMELAN: THE TRADITIONAL SOUNDS OF INDONESIA. By Henry Spiller. Santa Barbara, California: ABC -CLIO, 2004. xxiii + 395 pp. Illus. and CD. Hardcover $60.00. The Sundanese of West Java count as the second largest ethnic group in Indonesia (after the Javanese), but their art and culture have been relatively neglected in the scholarly literature. This has changed in recent years with a spate of publications on Sundanese performance: Andrew Weintraub's book on wayang golek (reviewed in this issue of ATJ ), a monograph on tembang Sunda (Sundanese chamber music) by Sean Williams, and a volume on electronic media and Sundanese performance by Edwin Jurriëns. Henry Spiller's insightful introduction to gamelan concerns traditions of gong-chime music in Indonesia as a whole. But about half of the text and the accompanying audio compact disc focus on http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

Gamelan: The Traditional Sounds of Indonesia (review)

Cohen, Matthew Isaac
Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 22 (2) – Oct 31, 2005
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B OOK R EV IEWS the twentieth century. As she continues her analysis, she can bring us toward wider understanding of the art of performance. It is unfortunate that the high cost of the book will make it more likely to find its way into library holdings than into the personal libraries of students of these arts. K athy Foley University of California­Santa Cruz GAMELAN: THE TRADITIONAL SOUNDS OF INDONESIA. By Henry Spiller. Santa Barbara, California: ABC -CLIO, 2004. xxiii + 395 pp. Illus. and CD. Hardcover $60.00. The Sundanese of West Java count as the second largest ethnic group in Indonesia (after the Javanese), but their art and culture have been relatively neglected in the scholarly literature. This has changed in recent years with a spate of publications on Sundanese performance: Andrew Weintraub's book on wayang golek (reviewed in this issue of ATJ ), a monograph on tembang Sunda (Sundanese chamber music) by Sean Williams, and a volume on electronic media and Sundanese performance by Edwin Jurriëns. Henry Spiller's insightful introduction to gamelan concerns traditions of gong-chime music in Indonesia as a whole. But about half of the text and the accompanying audio compact disc focus on

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Published: Oct 31, 2005

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