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Author Byl, Julia

Title Antiphonal Histories : Resonant Pasts in the Toba Batak Musical Present
Published Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages)
Series Music Culture
Music/culture.
Contents Cover; Antiphonal Histories; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Translation and Music; PART I Bindu / Introduction; Orientation; 1 Cosmological Cartography; 2 Two Interludes and Some Family History; PART II Tarombo / Genealogy; Orientation; 3 The Aunties in the Lake Meet Batara Guru; 4 Grandfather Nommensen and Raja Stambul; 5 Guru Nahum and Uncle Olo; PART III Partuturan / Positioning; Orientation; 6 Lapo Life; 7 "Jehovah Fights for Me"; 8 Artists from the Capital; 9 Jambar Hata / Portion of Words; PART IV Afterword; Four Short Studies in Time and Space; Notes
GlossaryBibliography; Index; Track Listing; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary A vivid ethnography and in-depth history of musical performance in North Sumatra
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-307) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Music -- Indonesia -- Sumatra -- History and criticism
Toba-Batak (Indonesian people) -- Music -- History and criticism
Toba-Batak (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Music
Toba-Batak (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs
Indonesia -- Sumatra
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780819574800
0819574805