Listening to an Earlier Java : Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music of Wayang in Central Java.

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LISTENING TO AN EARLIER JAVA; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTIONPreliminary soundings; On the problems of being there: fieldwork at Central Javanese events; Refinement, restraint, rules, and 'rasa': music and politics in Central Javanese courts; Listening back to an earlier Java: 'rasa', female 'gender' players, and 'grimingan'; CHAPTER I Musical analysis and cultural analysis Pathet, grimingan, and gender; On musical notation; Javanese gamelan music: some basics; 'Pathet' and 'the village'; 'Grimingan': an introduction; Culturally bounded styles of analysis.

'Grimingan': hearing or imposing structure and form?Comparing 'suluk' and 'grimingan' as played on the 'gender'; The process of 'grimingan'; Sameness in Javanese music performance contextualized; Finding 'pathet' in 'grimingan'; Conclusion; CHAPTER II Competing hegemonies The discourse on Javanese gender; On Javanese power and potency; The paradigm of potency: the Javanese idea of (male) potency; Feminist strategies: parallel power structures; Feminist strategies: inserting women into the dominant male paradigm; Feminist strategies: reinserting women into the discourse on potency.

Disempowerment and male biasCompeting and interacting hegemonies in Java; CHAPTER III Flaming wombs and female gender players Order, chaos, and gender in Central Javanese myth; Nyai Lara Kidul: loyal consort and destroyer of Central Javanese rulers; Chaotic love; Female 'gender' players and the gendered interaction between chaos and order; Myths and mundane realities; CHAPTER IV Javanese rasa Gendering emotion and restraint; Javanese performance and 'rasa'; 'Rasa' in Javanese music theoretical texts; Javanese music theories in historical context.

Location and difference: constructions of urban and rural performance stylesTalking about difference: distinguishing male and female styles of 'genderan'; Interpreting difference: distinguishing male and female styles of 'genderan'; Gendered 'rasa': concluding remarks; CHAPTER V Listening back; Connecting old and court wayang styles through aesthetics; The 'lakon' Palasara in the Serat Sastramiruda; Transitions to marital bliss: on the significance of 'gapuran'; Pain and pleasure of separation: the order and chaos of loyalty; Particularly Javanese additions to the Bharatayuddha.

CONCLUSION Final soundingsGlossary; Bibliography; Index.

This study is the first large-scale treatment of gender issues in Indonesian music. Integrating the analysis of gender and music with that of aesthetics, this study of the musical synergy between the puppeteer and his female accompanist describes the ways in which shifting gender constructions have helped to shape and change Central Javanese music and theatre performance practice while throwing new light on the history of Javanese gender relations and culture, as well as on the aesthetics of Central Javanese shadow-puppet theatre. PLEASE NOTE: The material on the CD-ROM included with the origi.

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