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In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman s voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to the rhythm at village ceremonies, weddings, political rallies, and nightclubs. The music the men dance to varies from traditional gong ensembles to the contemporary pop known as "dangdut," but they consistently dance with great enthusiasm. In "Erotic Triangles," Henry Spiller draws on decades of ethnographic research to explore the reasons behind...

Fragrant tropical flowers, opulent batik fabrics, magnificent bronze gamelan orchestras, and, of course, aromatic coffee. Such are the exotic images of Java, Indonesia's most densely populated island, that have hovered at the periphery of North American imaginations for generations. Through close readings of the careers of four javaphiles--individuals who embraced Javanese performing arts in their own quests for a sense of belonging--Javaphilia: American Love Affairs with Javanese Music and Dance explores a century of American representations of Javanese performing arts by North Americans....