Gongs and Pop Songs: Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia

(Book #127 in the Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series Series)

by Jennifer A. Fraser

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Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this tendency by exploring a little-known gong tradition from Sumatra called talempong, long associated with people who identify themselves as Minangkabau.

Grounded in rich ethnographic...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0896802957

ISBN13:9780896802957

Release Date:June 2015

Publisher:Ohio University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

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Gongs and Pop Songs: Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia

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