The author analyzes representations of Javanese music and dance by North Americans, namely opera singer Eva Gauthier, dancer/painter Hubert Stowitts, ethnomusicologist Mantle Hood, and composer Lou Ha
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---brea
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 busin
Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia is an introduction to the familiar music from Southeast Asia's largest country - both as sound and as cultural phenomenon. An archipelago of over 17,000 islands, Ind
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,
Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical pr
