Performing Arts and the Royal Courts of Southeast Asia, Volume Two

Mayco A. Santaella is Professor at the Department of Film and Performing Arts and Dean for the School of Arts at Sunway University. He is the co-editor of Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2021) and editor of Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (under)Currents and Currencies (Sunway University Press, 2022).

Contents

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Contributors



1 Manipulating Notions of Southeast Asian Royal Court Performance: Romanticising, Appropriating, Deconstructing, Inventing and Imagining

 Ricardo D. Trimillos



2 ‘A Name Is All That Remains’: Twenty-first-century Traces of Sundanese Royal Courts in Modern Sundanese Performing Arts

 Henry Spiller



3 Performing Arts as a Cultural Bridge between Hindu Rulers and Muslim Communities in Bali

 Ako Mashino



4 Martial Arts and the Malays of Singapore: from Court Traditions to Contemporary Identity Signifiers

 Mohamed Effendy Abdul Hamid



5 The Royal Abduction of Napsa and the Hostaging of Dance: a Discursive Exploration of Why Igal Is Pangalay in the Sulu Archipelago

 M.C.M. Santamaria



6 The Fewer the Better: Exclusivity in Royal Thai Court Music

 Supeena Insee Adler



7 For Soul or for Sale? Javanese Court Dance at a Crossroads

 Sal Murgiyanto and A.M. Hermien Kusmayati



8 Thai Court Performance as Object, Event and Affect

 Deborah Wong



9 Reciprocity and Allegiance of Enduring Intra-kingdom Relationships in Balinese Performing Arts

 Made Mantle Hood



10 Honouring the Maradika: from Kaili Kingdoms to a Decentralised Neo-royal Provincial Government

 Mayco A. Santaella



11 Traditional Performing Arts in the North Coast of Java: Centre–Periphery, Court–Rural Dynamics

 Sumarsam



12 Rei(g)ning in a New World: Performing Javanese Kingship to Diverse Contemporary Audiences in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

 Roger Vetter



13 Discourses of Style and Value in the Performing Arts of the Javanese Courts

 R. Anderson Sutton



Glossary of Non-English Terms

Index