René Lysloff

• University of California, Riverside

Scholars and travelers have been interested in the music of other cultures and regions of the world for several centuries but only since the twentieth century has such inquiry cohered into an identifiable disciplinary field of study. Ethnomusicology is a relatively new field; the term first began to be widely used in Europe and the United States wi...

Narratives of globalization are often about coping with inevitable and massive economic, technocultural, and societal change. Similarly, studies of music and globalization tend to be theoretically oriented and focus on large-scale transformation (media, industry, nation, etc.) rather than on local and individual innovation and ingenuity. This essay...

A partir d'une recherche de terrain realisee en 1994 dans la region de Banyumas (centre-ouest de Java) sur la tradition musicale et de danse lengger, l'A. decrit la confrontation entre des pratiques rurales ancestrales et les conceptions indonesiennes modernes de la tradition dans le cadre de la politique culturelle du Nouvel Ordre (Orde Baru). Il...

Manoa 12.1 (2000) 13-23 February 1966: a small town in a remote corner of Central Java. The period of oppressive darkness had lasted for more than half a year. Except for security personnel, people did not leave their homes after dark. At night the air was filled with the sound of gunfire, military transport vehicles, the pounding of boots, and the...

Cet article a pour objectif une meilleure comprehension de la culture musicale populaire contemporaine dans les pays occidentaux principalement, mais aussi a l'echelle mondiale. L'A. montre qu'il serait necessaire de revoir le concept de culture qui est aujourd'hui totalement transforme par l'utilisation et la diffusion des technologies de pointe (...

A Java, avant chaque representation de theâtre d'ombres (« wayang kulit ») une ouverture musicale (« talu ») composee de 7 parties et exprimant le cycle de vie est interpretee afin de faire entrer progressivement le public dans un univers surnaturel. Il en va de meme dans le repertoire rituel thai hindou-bouddhiste avec l'interpretation de l'« homr...

This study describes a Banyumas understanding of the Javanese shadow puppet theater tradition. By taking one complete performance as an example, the study examines wayang kulit (Javanese shadow-puppet theater) in the region of Banyumas. More important, it shows how a puppeteer in this area transforms the culturally universal traditions of Javanese...

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 389-392). Discography: leaves 393-398. Photocopy.