Title Bridges to the ancestors : music, myth, and cultural politics at an Indonesian festival / David D. Harnish

Published Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: Encounters, constructions, reflections -- Festivals and cultures of Lombok -- Myths, actors, and politics -- Temples units, performing arts, and festival rites -- Music: history, cosmology, and content -- Exploration of meaning -- Changing dimensions/changing identities -- Summary and conclusions: The final gong Summary The spectacular Lingsar festival is held annually at a village temple complex built above the most abundant water springs on the island of Lombok, near Bali. Participants come to the festival not only for the efficacy of its rites but also for its spiritual, social, and musical experience. A nexus of religious, political, artistic, and agrarian interests, the festival also serves to harmonize relations between indigenous Sasak Muslims and migrant Balinese Hindus. Ethnic tensions, however, lie beneath the surface of cooperative behavior, and struggles regularly erupt over which group--Balinese or Sasak--owns the past and dominates the present. Bridges to the Ancestors is a broad ethnographic study of the festival based on over two decades of research. The work addresses the festival's players, performing arts, rites, and histories, and considers its relationship to the island's sociocultural and political trends. Music, the most public icon of the festival, has been largely responsible for overcoming differences between the island's two ethnic groups. Through the intermingling of Balinese and Sasak musics at the festival, a profound union has been forged, which participants confirm has been the event's primary social role. Bridges to the Ancestors effectively reveals the Lingsar festival as a site of cultural struggle as the author explores how history, identity, and power are constructed and negotiated. He addresses the fascinating interaction between music and myth and the forces of modernity, globalization, authenticity, tourism, religion, regionalism, and nationalism in maintaining "tradition." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Sasak (Indonesian people) -- Indonesia -- Lombok -- Rites and ceremonies Sasak (Indonesian people) -- Indonesia -- Lombok -- Religion Mythology, Balinese -- Indonesia -- Lombok Songs, Balinese -- Indonesia -- Lombok Fasts and feasts -- Indonesia -- Lombok Political culture -- Indonesia -- Lombok Muslims -- Indonesia -- Lombok Hindus -- Indonesia -- Lombok SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions. HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia. Fasts and feasts. Hindus. Manners and customs. Muslims. Mythology, Balinese. Political culture. Songs, Balinese. Spiritualität Mythos Ethnische Gruppe Musik Ritus Hinduismus Kulturpolitik Religiöses Fest Religiöses Fest -- Indonesien -- Lombok. Religiöses Fest -- Ritus -- Indonesien -- Sassak. Fest -- Brauchtum. SUBJECT Lombok (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs Lombok (Indonesia) -- Religious life and customs Subject Indonesia -- Lombok. Lombok Lombok -- Religiöses Fest. Sassak -- Ritus -- Religiöses Fest. Sasak. Balinesen. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780824861674 0824861671

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