Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music of Wayang in Central Java

ISBN-13: 9789067182737 / Angielski

Sarah Weiss

Opis

This study of the musical synergy between the puppeteer and his female accompanist describes the ways in which shifting gender constructions have helped to shape and change Central Javanese music and theatre performance practice while throwing new light on the history of Javanese gender relations and culture, as well as on the aesthetics of Central Java shadow-puppet theatre.