Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“sumarsam”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sumarsam”
Skip side bar filters

  • The In-Between in Javanese Performing Arts

    History and Myth, Interculturalism and Interreligiosity

    by Sumarsam ...
    This book is the first comprehensive overview of Javanese performing arts from their origins to their dynamic present. Renowned scholar and musician Sumarsam draws from a lifetime of immersion in both wayang and gamelan to guide readers through the concept of the "in-between," revealing how the interplay of dualisms—myth and history, sacred and secular, personal and cultural—forms the bedrock of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Javanese Gamelan and the West

    by Sumarsam ...
    Javanese Gamelan and the West studies the meaning, forms, and traditions of the Javanese performing arts as they developed and changed through their contact with Western culture. Authored by a gamelan performer, teacher, and scholar, the book traces the adaptations in gamelan art as a result of Western colonialism in nineteenth-century Java, showing how Western musical and dramatic practices were ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Antiphonal Histories

    Resonant Pasts in the Toba Batak Musical Present

    by Julia Byl ...
    Positioned on a major trade route, the Toba Batak people of Sumatra have long witnessed the ebb and flow of cultural influence from India, the Middle East, and the West. Living as ethnic and religious minorities within modern Indonesia, Tobas have recast this history of difference through interpretations meant to strengthen or efface the identities it has shaped. Antiphonal Histories examines Toba ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ghostly Desires

    Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema

    by Arnika Fuhrmann ...
    Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World

    Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities

    Edited by Melani Budianta, Manneke Budiman, Abidin Kusno, Mikihiro Moriyama ...
    The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area ... Read more

    Free

  • Rangda: The Legendary Goddess of Bali

    by Brandon Spars ...
    Rangda: The Legendary Goddess of Bali examines the layered origins of this premier Southeast Asian goddess. As prominent as Pele of the Polynesian Islands, Rangda is perhaps the most familiar, most feared, and most revered deity, regularly represented by her unique and horrifying mask in the temples of Bali while also adorning the tourist pamphlets and t-shirts of Kuta Beach. Even though prominent ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music

    Edited by Andrew McGraw, Christopher J. Miller ...
    Series series Cornell Modern Indonesia Project
    Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music showcases the breadth and complexity of the music of Indonesia. By bringing together chapters on the merging of Batak musical preferences and popular music aesthetics; the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a Balinese rock band; the burgeoning underground noise scene; the growing interest in kroncong in the United States; and what is included and excluded on ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Thailand Tourism

    by Arthur Asa Berger ...
    Understand Thailand’s important symbols, icons, and social practicesThailand’s culture is unlike any other. Travelers attempting to fully immerse themselves in all that this tourist destination has to offer find it essential to become culturally sensitive. Thailand Tourism provides readers with an indispensable overview of this remarkable land of contrasts. This invaluable text reveals the South ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Language Ungoverned

    Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949

    by Tom G. Hoogervorst ...
    By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G. Hoogervorst's Language Ungoverned examines how the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguistic and political governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh perspective on the subversive role of language in colonial power relations.As a liminal colonial population, the ethnic ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos

    The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Phrae Chittiphalangsri, Vicente L. Rafael ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Comprising 11 countries and hundreds of languages from one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world, the chapters in this collection explore a wide range of translation issues.The subject of this volume is set in the contrasted landscapes of mainland peninsulas and maritime archipelagos in Southeast Asia, which, whilst remaining a largely minor area in Asian studies, harbors a wealth of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music

    Edited by Terry Miller, Sean Williams ...
    Series series Garland Handbooks of World Music
    The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area.Part one provides an in-depth ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Voices in Bali

    Energies and Perceptions in Vocal Music and Dance Theater

    by Edward Herbst, René T.A. Lysloff ...
    A scholar and trained performer of Balinese vocal music and dance, ethnomusicologist Edward Herbst brings unique talents to bear in this provocative book. The lessons of his Balinese masters enable him to offer fresh insight to this culture's aesthetics and cultural elements. Appropriating John Cage's effective style of "mixing theory, anecdote, context, philosophy, and humor," Herbst crafts an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus