Negotiation and hybridity in new Balinese music
Sanggar Bona Alit, a case study
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v12i1.45Keywords:
new Balinese music, hybridity, sanggarAbstract
Writers and scholars have often interpreted the Balinese as struggling to exist in two worlds - the traditional and the modern. Many Balinese, however, tend to see themselves as attempting to negotiate foreign culture and to manage the far-reaching transformations that have taken place in their world. Moreover, Balinese conceptions and expressions of their contemporary world are not homogenous and artists have responded in a variety of ways. The case of Sanggar Bona Alit, a studio for the teaching and performance of music and dance founded by Alit Adi Putra - musician, composer, and painter - shows how creative productions may be shaped by processes of cultural negotiation that occur at the conceptual boundaries between the familiar and the foreign, the inside and outside, and the traditional and the modern.
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DeZoete, B., and W. Spies. 1973 [1938]. Dance and Drama in Bali. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.
Dibia, I. W. 2000. Kecak: The Vocal Chant of Bali, 2nd edn. Denpasar: Hartanto Art Books Studio.
Dunbar-Hall, P. 2006. ‘Culture, Tourism, and Cultural Tourism: Boundaries and Frontiers in Performances of Balinese Music and Dance’. In Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, ed. J. C. Post, 55–65. New York: Routledge.
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Seebas, T. 1996. ‘Change in Balinese Musical Life: Kebiar in the 1920s and 1930s’. In Being Modern in Bali: Image and Change, ed. A. Vickers, 71–114. New Haven, CN: Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University.
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Tenzer, M. 2000. Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-century Balinese Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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2011-09-23
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Mora, M. (2011). Negotiation and hybridity in new Balinese music: Sanggar Bona Alit, a case study. Perfect Beat, 12(1), 45-68. https://doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v12i1.45
