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Author Lysloff, René T. A

Title Srikandhi dances lnggr : a performance of music and shadow theater / Rene T.A. Lysloff
Published Leiden : KITLV Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 571 pages) : illustrations, music
Series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1572-1892 ; 248
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 248. 1572-1892
Contents SRIKANDHI DANCES LÈNGGÈR; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of illustrations; PART 1 BACKGROUND; Chapter I Cultural universals and local traditions; Chapter II Shadow theater as a cultural institution; Chapter III The temporal organization of wayang kulit; Chapter IV Wayang temporalities; Chapter V Sugino and his audience; Chapter VI Music and intra-cultural difference; PART 2 TRANSLATION; Synopsis; Act 1 Pathet nem; INTERLUDE: Gara-gara; Act 2 Pathet sanga; Act 3 Pathet manyura; APPENDICES; Appendix 1: Music transcription Overture (Talu)
Appendix 2: Music transcription Act 1 (Pathet nem)Appendix 3: Music transcription Interlude (Gara-gara); Appendix 4: Music transcription Act 2 (Pathet sanga); Appendix 5: Music transcription Act 3 (Pathet manyura); Appendix 6: Illustrations; Bibliography; Index
Summary The book is structured around the translation of a Javanese shadow theater performance entitled Srikandhi Mbarang Lènggèr ("Srikandhi Becomes an Itinerant Dancer" or "Srikandhi Dances Lènggèr"), 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-558) and index
Notes Includes Javanese text, English translation of the text of Ki Sugino's Srikandhi mbarang lènggèr, with a sound recording of a performance on the accompanying CDRom
Subject Siswocarito, Sugino. Srikandhi mbarang lengger
Wayang.
Wayang plays.
Music -- Indonesia -- Banyumas -- History and criticism
Gamelan music.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Australian & Oceanian.
Gamelan music
Music
Wayang
Wayang plays
Wayang
Indonesia -- Banyumas
Zentraljava
Genre/Form Puppet plays
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Puppet plays.
Théâtre de marionnettes.
Form Electronic book
Author Siswocarito, Sugino. Srikandhi mbarang lengger
ISBN 9789004253841
900425384X