Power plays : wayang golek puppet theater of West Java / Andrew N. Weintraub
- Bib ID:
- 3408979
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Weintraub, Andrew N. (Andrew Noah)
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2004
- xvii, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- ISBN:
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- 089680240X
- 9812302492
- Series:
- Research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 110.
- Summary:
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"Power Plays is the first scholarly book in English on wayang golek, the Sundanese rod-puppet theater of West Java. It is a detailed and lively account of the ways in which performers of this major Asian theatrical form have engaged with political discourses in Indonesia and shaped technological and commercial conditions of art and performance in a modernizing society."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Defining wayang golek
- Cultural policy and canons of performance
- Superstar dalang
- Challenging the new order with entertainment
- The spectacle of sound
- The cassette culture of wayang golek
- Televisual mediations
- Mediating the nation in post-Suharto Indonesia
- The politics of performance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-288) and index.
- Subject:
- Wayang -- Indonesia -- Java
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2004
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