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Bittersweet Sounds of Passage: Balinese Gamelan Angklung Cremation Music

Bittersweet Sounds of Passage: Balinese Gamelan Angklung Cremation Music

Koskoff, Ellen

Hardcover

Death & DyingGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWorld Music

ISBN10: 0252046625
ISBN13: 9780252046629
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Jul 8 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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