Divine Inspirations

Music and Islam in Indonesia
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-538542-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 660 g

Visit the companion web site
Features new theories and unpublished studies based on original and unique ethnographic fieldwork
Presents conclusions that differ from mainstream understandings of music and Islam, the place of Islam in Indonesian performing arts, and Islam in Indonesia
Provides a fascinating introduction to the cultures of Islamic Indonesia

Indonesia is celebrated for ist courtly arts, ist beautiful beaches, ist tourist attractions, and ist artisan marketplace. Yet long overdue is a look at Indonesian Islam as the source of and inspiration for the arts throughout the history if ist people, and in the dynamic popular performances of today. From the rhythmic grooves of dang dut, the archipelago's tenacious pop music, to the oft-quoted image of the wayang shadow puppet-theater, Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia investigates the expression of the Muslim religion through a diversity of art forms in this region. And from Quranic recitation by teenaged girls and women in Jakarta to the provincial patronage of Sufi arts and Muslim ritual as regional performance, this volume further addresses the ways in which Islam-inspired performance has been co-opted and appropriated for the expression of national culture.

Eleven ethnographic case studies by an international roster of specialists in Indonesian expressive culture and performing arts are complimented by an introduction by co-editors David Harnish and Anne Rasmussen, and an epilogue by senior scholar Judith Becker. The collection explores the region's various micro-cultures of music, dance, religious ritual, government patronage, social censorship, tourism, development, and gender roles and relations. This pastiche speaks on personal, political, global, and local levels to the most important question of identity and ideology in Indonesia today: Islam.

Divine Inspirations will engage readers interested in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Islam, world religions, global discourse, and music, arts and ritual.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students (undergraduate and graduate level) of ethnomusicology, religious studies, political Islam, Indonesian studies, Southeast Asian studies, Anthropology, Dance Ethnology, Indian Ocean studies, Middle East studies; general readers interested in Indonesian and/or Southeast Asian music, religion, and/or culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harnish, David D.

Harnish, David

Rasmussen, Anne K.

Rasmussen, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Andere zeitgenössische Musikrichtungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
About the Companion Website
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The World of Islam in the Music of Indonesia
David Harnish, Anne Rasmussen
Part I Tensions, Change, and Problematic Histories
1.: Past and Present Issues of Islam within the Central Javanese
Gamelan and Wayang Kulit
Sumarsam
2.: Tensions between Adat (Custom) and Agama (Religion) in the
Music of Lombok
David Harnish
Part II Mysticism and Devotionalism
3.: "The Muslim Sisterhood": Transnational Feminism(s) and the
Work of Indonesian Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Anne Rasmussen
4.: Brai in Performance: Devotion and Art in Java
Matthew Isaac Cohen
5.: Self-Defense and Music in Muslim Contexts in West Java
Uwe U. Pätzold
Part III Global Currents and Discourse
6.: From "Dust" to Platinum: Global Currents Through the Malay
World of Musical Islam
Charles Capwell
7.: "Authentic" Islamic Sound? Orkes Gambus Music, the Arab
Idiom and Sonic Symbols in Indonesian Islamic Musical Arts
Birgit Berg
8.: The Discourse on Islam and Music in West Java, with Emphasis
on the Music Group, ath-Thawaf
Wim van Zanten
Part IV Contemporary Performative Worlds
9.: "Art with a Muslim Theme" and "Art with a Muslim Flavor"
among Women of West Aceh
Margaret Kartomi
10.: Islam, Politics, and the Dynamic of Contemporary Music in
Indonesia
R. Franki Notosudirdjo
11.: Morality and its (Dis)contents: Dangdut and Islam in Indonesia
Andrew Weintraub
Epilogue
Judith Becker
Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rasmussen, Anne
Anne K. Rasmussen is associate professor at The College of William and Mary, where she also directs a Middle Eastern Music Ensemble. She is the author of Women's Voices, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia (California, 2010) and is co-editor of Musics of Multicultural America (Schirmer, 1997) and a former Fulbright senior scholar.

Harnish, David
David Harnish is Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University. He is author of Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival (University of Hawai'i, 2006) and has recorded and/or performed Indonesian, jazz, Indian and Tejano musics with five different labels.

Anne K. Rasmussen is associate professor at The College of William and Mary, where she also directs a Middle Eastern Music Ensemble. She is the author of Women's Voices, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia (California, 2010) and is co-editor of Musics of Multicultural America (Schirmer, 1997) and a former Fulbright senior scholar.

David Harnish is Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University. He is author of Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival (University of Hawai'i, 2006) and has recorded and/or performed Indonesian, jazz, Indian and Tejano musics with five different labels.

Contributors:
Judith Becker, Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan, is former director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and co-founder and first director of the Center for World Performance Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author of three books: Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing (2004; recipient of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam award), Gamelan Stories: Tantrism, Islam and Aesthetics in Central Java (1993), and Traditional Music in Modern Java (1980).; Birgit Berg completed her Ph.D. dissertation titled "The Music of Arabs, the Sound of Islam: Hadrami ethnic and religious presence in Indonesia" at Brown University in 2007. Upon completing her dissertation, Birgit was named a 2007 Presidential Management Fellow and began a two-year fellowship in Washington, D.C. with Voice of America broadcasting's East Asia division. ; Charles Capwell retired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007 after thirty years on the faculty of the School of Music. He is a former editor of Ethnomusicology and has conducted fieldwork in India and Indonesia as a Fulbright Scholar.; Matthew Isaac Cohen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London. His book, The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903, co-published by Ohio University Press and KITLV Press, won the 2008 Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.; David Harnish (Ph.D. UCLA, M.A. U- Hawai'i) is Professor of Ethnomusicology, co-director of Balinese gamelan Kusuma Sari, and Associate Dean in the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is author of Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth, and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival (University of Hawai'i, 2006).; Margaret Kartomi (AM FAHA Dr Phil) is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Research in the School of Music-Conservatorium, Monash University. She is the author of four books, including On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments (Chicago, 1990). Her next book, the first on the music cultures of Sumatra, is forthcoming with the University of Illinois Press.; Franki S. Notosudirdjo (a.k.a. Franki Raden) is an Indonesian composer-ethnomusicologist. From 2006-present, he teaches at the Visual and Performing Arts, Department of Humanities, University of Toronto, Canada. He is also a secretary of The Sacred Bridge Foundation.; Uwe U. Pätzold (b. 1959) currently teaches ethnomusicology at Robert Schumann University of Music, Duesseldorf, Germany. His publishing history includes Movement Forms and Music Styles of the Pencak Silat in West Java and West Sumatra (Holos-Verlag 2000).; Anne K. Rasmussen is Associate Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology at The College of William and Mary where she also directs the William and Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble. She is contributing co-editor of Musics of Multicultural America (Schirmer 1997). Rasmussen's book Women's Voices, the Recited Qur'ân, and Islamic Musical Arts in Indonesia is forthcoming with the University of California Press.; Sumarsam is an Adjunct Professor of Music at Wesleyan University, teaching performance, history, and theory of gamelan. His book Gamelan: Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central Java was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1995 (Pustaka Pelajar Press of Yogyakarta published ist Indonesian version in 2003).; Wim van Zanten taught Anthropology of Music and Statistics and Data Theory for the Social Sciences at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, the Netherlands from 1971 to 2007. He is preparing a second book on Tembang Sunda Cianjuran music and a book on the music of the Baduy minority group. Van Zanten is also Vice-President of the International Council for Traditional Music.; Andrew N. Weintraub is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ethnomusicology and popular music, and directs the University of Pittsburgh gamelan program. He is the author of Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java (Ohio University Press, 2004), and co-editor of Music and Cultural Rights (University of Illinois Press, 2009). He is currently completing a book titled Dangdut Stories: A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's most Popular Music (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).