Bittersweet Sounds of Passage
Balinese Gamelan Angklung Cremation Music
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 8 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780252046629
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 21 black & white photographs, 18 tables, 30 listening guides-flow plans 619
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Long description:
An important presence through centuries of musical and social change, gamelan angklung is a small, four-tone bronze-keyed ensemble that remains ubiquitous at cremations in Bali. Ellen Koskoff offers a compelling portrait of these little-studied orchestras and their members: rice farmers, eatery owners, and other locals who do not see themselves as musicians or what they play as music.
Koskoff examines the history, cultural significance, and musical structures of contemporary gamelan angklung cremation music through the lens of three intertwined stories: existing scholarship on this music, written mostly by Western composers and scholars; the views of those performing and experiencing the music who regard it as dharma--ritual obligation, a basic concept in Balinese Hinduism; and the music itself, with a musical analysis focusing on changes in rasa--feeling, flavor and musical flow.
A journey inside a tradition, Bittersweet Sounds of Passage reveals the overlooked music of an important ritual in Balinese village life.
MoreTable of Contents:
Companion Website
List of Recordings
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Balinese Village Life
Chapter 2. Gamelan Angklung Today
Chapter 3. Gamelan Angklung Scholarship and Its Legacies
Chapter 4. Three Possible Gamelan Angklung Ancestors
Chapter 5. Work for the Dead
Chapter 6. Work for the Community
Chapter 7. Gamelan Angklung Cremation Music Today
Chapter 8. Flow-Paths
Chapter 9. In the Context of Performance
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
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