Power plays : wayang golek puppet theater of West Java

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Power plays : wayang golek puppet theater of West Java

Andrew N. Weintraub

(Research in international studies, . Southeast Asia series ; no. 110)

Ohio University Press, c2004

  • : pbk
  • : ISEAS

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-288) and index

Contents of Works
  • Defining wayang golek
  • Cultural policy and canons of performance
  • Superstar dalang
  • Challenging the new order with entertainment
  • The spectacle of sound
  • The cassette culture of wayang golek
  • Televisual mediations
  • Mediating the nation in post-Suharto Indonesia
  • The politics of performance
Description and Table of Contents
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780896802407

Description

Based on ethnographic fieldwork spanning twenty years, Power Plays is the first scholarly book in English on wayang golek, the Sundanese rod-puppet theater of West Java. It is a detailed and lively account of the ways in which performers of this major Asian theatrical form have engaged with political discourses in Indonesia. Wayang golek has shaped, as well, the technological and commercial conditions of art and performance in a modernizing society. Using interviews with performers, musical transcriptions, translations of narrative and song texts, and archival materials, author Andrew N. Weintraub analyzes the shifting and flexible nature of a set of performance practices called Padalangan, the art of the puppeteer. He focuses on \u201csuperstar\u201d performers and the musical troupes that dominated wayang golek during the New Order political regime of former president Suharto (1966-98) and the ensuing three years of the post-Suharto period. Studies of actual performances illuminate stylistic and formal elements and situate wayang golek as a social process in Sundanese culture and society. Power Plays includes an interactive multimedia CD-ROM of wayang golek. Power Plays shows how meanings about identity, citizenship, and community are produced through theater, music, language, and discourse. While based in ethnographic theory and methods, this book is at the center of a new synthesis emerging among ethnomusicology, anthropology, and cultural studies. Its cross-disciplinary approach will inspire researchers studying similar struggles over cultural authority and popular representation in culture and the performing arts.
Volume

: ISEAS ISBN 9789812302496

Description

Power Plays is the first scholarly book in English on wayang golek, the Sundanese rod-puppet theater of West Java. It is a detailed and lively account of the ways in which performers of this major Asian theatrical form have engaged with political discourses in Indonesia and shaped technological and commercial conditions of art and performance in a moderniziing society. Andrew Weintraub focuses on ""superstar"" performers and the musical troupes that dominated wayang golek during the New Order political regime of former president Suharto (1966-98). Studies of actual performances illuminate stylistic and formal elements and situate wayang golek as a social process in Sundanese culture. Power Plays shows how meaning about identity, citizenship, and community are produced through theater, music, language, and discourse. Power Plays is at the center of a new synthesis emerging among ethno-musicology, cultural studies, and media studies. Its cross-disciplinary approach will inspire researchers studying similar struggles over state authority and popular representation in culture and the performing arts.

Table of Contents

  • Preliminary pages
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The State Of Wayang Golek
  • 1. Defining Wayang Golek
  • 2. Cultural Policy and Canons of Performance
  • Part II: Poetics And Politics
  • 3. Superstar Dalang
  • 4. Challenging the New Order with Entertainment
  • 5. The Spectacle of Sound
  • Part III: Cultural Technologies And Representation
  • 6. The Cassette Culture of Wayang Golek
  • 7. Televisual Mediations
  • 8. Mediating the Nation in Post-Suharto Indonesia
  • 9. The Politics of Performance
  • Appendix A: CD-ROM Contents
  • Appendix B: Biographies of Four Dalang
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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  • NCID
    BA70283945
  • ISBN
    • 089680240X
    • 9812302492
  • LCCN
    2004008186
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Athens, Ohio
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 295 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Attached Material
    1 computer laser optical disk (4 3/4 in.)
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