Children Dancing in Bali

Jonathan McIntosh is an Associate Professor in Music and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, based at Edith Cowan University. Focusing on questions of identity, movement, and music in anthropology and ethnomusicology, he has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Bali, Indonesia. His recent publications include chapters in The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking (Routledge, 2018), Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Essays on Collective Creativity and Social Agency (Oxford University Press, 2017), and The Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts (Routledge, 2016).

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Technical Notes



Introduction: Bali, Dance, Power



Chapter 1. Fieldwork, Experience, Language: Shaping the Ethnographer

Chapter 2. Continuity, Change, Creation: Children’s Songs and Song-Games

Chapter 3. Community, Discipline, Control: Teaching and Learning Dance

Chapter 4. Preparation, Presentation, Power: Performing Dance

Chapter 5. Gender, Emotions, Landscape: Dancing Children’s Barong

Chapter 6. Power, Agency, “Disco”: Localizing Popular Music and Dance



Conclusion: Moving Through Tradition



Appendix: Dance Repertoire Commonly Taught at Sanggar Seni Mumbul Sari



Glossary

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