Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the Evolution of an Indonesian Performing Art by Emerson, Kathryn

Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the Evolution of an Indonesian Performing Art

A richly illustrated study of wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, based on unprecedented decades-long...
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Author: Kathryn Emerson
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Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the Evolution of an Indonesian Performing Art by Emerson, Kathryn

Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the Evolution of an Indonesian Performing Art

CHF 77.30

Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the Evolution of an Indonesian Performing Art

CHF 77.30
Author: Kathryn Emerson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A richly illustrated study of wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, based on unprecedented decades-long participatory research.

Wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, fascinates and endures thanks to the many ways it works as a medium--bearing the weight of Javanese culture and tradition as a key component of rites of passage, as a medium of ritual and spiritual practice, as public spectacle, and as entertainment of the broadest sort, performed live, broadcast, or streamed. Over the past forty years, the form has been subject to a great deal of experimentation and innovation, pulled in many directions within an ever-changing media landscape. In this book, Kathryn Anne Emerson outlines both significant contributions by a number of key figures and the social and political influences propelling such innovations. She also describes deeper and more lasting changes in wayang, based on what the art form's most accomplished practitioners have to say about it. At the core of the book is one pivotal figure, Purbo Asmoro of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Surakarta, who, Emerson argues, has taken the individual and singular innovations of the era and integrated them into a new system of performance practice, one that has shaped the key Surakarta school of performance. Grounded in an unprecedented, decades-long participatory research project involving hundreds of interlocutors, the book is beautifully illustrated and will be of considerable interest in Indonesian studies.


Author: Kathryn Emerson
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Published: 11/10/2022
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
ISBN: 9789813251892

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