Stunning Males and Powerful Females
Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance
Seiten
2015
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08059-3 (ISBN)
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08059-3 (ISBN)
In east Javanese dance traditions like Beskalan and Ngremo, musicians and dancers negotiate gender through performances where males embody femininity and females embody masculinity. Christina Sunardi ventures into the regency of Malang in east Java to study and perform with dancers. Through formal interviews and casual conversation, Sunardi learns about their lives and art. Her work shows how performers continually transform dance traditions to negotiate, and renegotiate, the boundaries of gender and sex--sometimes reinforcing lines of demarcation, sometimes transgressing them, and sometimes doing both simultaneously. But Sunardi's investigation moves beyond performance. It expands notions of the spiritual power associated with female bodies and feminine behavior, and the ways women, men, and waria (males who dress and live as female) access the magnetic power of femaleness.
A journey into understudied regions and ideas, Stunning Males and Powerful Females reveals how performances seemingly fixed by tradition are instead dynamic environments for cultural negotiation and change surrounding questions of sex and gender.
A journey into understudied regions and ideas, Stunning Males and Powerful Females reveals how performances seemingly fixed by tradition are instead dynamic environments for cultural negotiation and change surrounding questions of sex and gender.
Christina Sunardi is an associate professor of music at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.2.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | New Perspectives on Gender in Music |
Zusatzinfo | 18 black and white photographs, 8 line drawings, 2 maps, 1 chart |
Verlagsort | Baltimore |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre | |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-252-08059-9 / 0252080599 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-08059-3 / 9780252080593 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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