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Author Sutton, Richard Anderson

Title Calling back the spirit : music, dance, and cultural politics in lowland South Sulawesi / R. Anderson Sutton
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents List of Illustrations; Contents of Compact Disk; Orthography, Abbreviations, and Conventions; 1 Introduction; 2 South Sulawesi on Parade: Representations of the Local in the Culture Week Festival; 3 From Ritual Enactment to Stage Entertainment: Andi Nurhani Sapada and the Aestheticization of South Sulawesi's Music and Dance, 1940s-1970s; 4 From Entertainment to Art and Back to Ritual: The Struggle for Legitimacy and Artistic Power, 1970s-1990s; 5 Patriotism and Performance: One Holiday, Two Forts, Three Events
Summary Calling Back the Spirit' describes how, in the face of Indonesian and foreign cultural pressures, the Makassarese people of South Sulawesi defend their local spirit through music and dance. The book examines the ways performers seek to empower local music and dance in a changing environment
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Makasar (Indonesian people) -- Rites and ceremonies
Makasar (Indonesian people) -- Music
Makasar (Indonesian people) -- Folklore
Folk dancing, Indonesian -- Indonesia -- Sulawesi Selatan
Folklore -- Performance -- Indonesia -- Sulawesi Selatan
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Holidays (non-religious)
Folk dancing, Indonesian
Folklore -- Performance
Makasar (Indonesian people)
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Sulawesi Selatan (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs
Subject Indonesia -- Sulawesi Selatan
Genre/Form Folklore
Music
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001036392
ISBN 9780195112368
0195112369
1602561788
9781602561786
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9781423759638
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9781280453649
9786610453641
6610453640