Srikandhi Dances Lnggr: A Performance of Music and Shadow Theater in Central Java (Verhandelingen van Het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 248)

ISBN: 9067182982

Author: Ren

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Product Description The book is structured around the translation of a Javanese shadow theater performance entitled Srikandhi Mbarang Lnggr ("Srikandhi Becomes an Itinerant Dancer" or "Srikandhi Dances Lnggr"), performed only in the Banyumas region (in west Central Java) by the locally renowned puppeteer, Ki Sugino Siswocarito. This study is a translation of the story both in a strict textual-linguistic sense and in a more general interpretive sense, providing an understanding of what the performance means to its Banyumas audience. More important, it shows how the puppeteer transforms the culturally universal traditions of Javanese ritual, shadow-puppet theater, and music to particularize the entire performance event for a local audience. About the Author René T.A. Lysloff is an Associate Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at the University of California-Riverside. He has conducted research on traditional and contemporary arts in Central Java for more than twenty years. Lysloff has published articles in Ethnomusicology, Asian Theatre, Cultural Anthropology, and other journals and collections (including the Garland Encyclopedia of Music). Also, he co-edited (with Leslie Gay) Music and Technoculture (2003, Wesleyan University Press).