By Jennifer A. Fraser

ISBN-10: 0896802949

ISBN-13: 9780896802940

ISBN-10: 0896802957

ISBN-13: 9780896802957

“Fraser discusses the aesthetics and procedure of perfect musical types hired through talempong avid gamers, the historical past of the talempong, and, such a lot compellingly, the more recent varieties of perform, together with repertoires that comprise renowned track genres from all over the world. The author’s dialogue of institutionalization, professionalization, and monetization of Minangkau arts regularly and talempong kinds in particular supplies this ebook broader relevance.…SUMMING UP: Recommended.” —CHOICE

Scholarship at the musical traditions of Indonesia has lengthy interested in practices from Java and Bali, together with famed gamelan traditions, on the price of the extensive range of different musical types in the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this tendency by way of exploring a little-known gong culture from Sumatra referred to as talempong, lengthy linked to those that determine themselves as Minangkabau.

Grounded in wealthy ethnographic info and supplemented with on-line audiovisual fabrics, Gongs and dad Songs is the 1st examine to chronicle the background and diversity of talempong types. It unearths the ongoing energy of older modes in rural groups within the twenty-first century, whereas tracing the emergence of more recent ones with notably assorted aesthetic frames and values. each one talempong sort mentioned accommodates into its repertoire Minangkabau pop or indigenous songs, either one of that have robust institutions with where and folks. those modern advancements in talempong have taken position opposed to a moving political, social, and financial backdrop: the institutionalization of indigenous arts, a failed nearby uprising, and the pressures of a free-market economy.

Fraser adopts a cognitive method of ethnicity, asking how humans comprehend themselves as Minangkabau via talempong and the way assorted forms of the style aid create and articulate ethnic sentiments — that is, how they assist humans sound Minangkabau.

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