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Michael B. Bakan

Music of Death and New Creation

Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur

407 pages, 17 halftones, 32 musical examples, 8 tables, 1 compact disc  6 x 9  © 1999
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Cloth $81.00

ISBN: 9780226034874   Published December 1999

Paper $39.00

ISBN: 9780226034881   Published December 1999

List of Plates, Figures, and Musical Examples
Musical Excerpts on the Compact Disc
Acknowledgments
Note
Part One: Awit-Awit
Introduction
Part Two: Kawitan
1. The Gamelan Beleganjur in Traditional Balinese Musical Life
2. Lomba Beleganjur: The Modern Competitive Context
3. Kreasi Beleganjur: The Contest Musical Style
4. Two Musicians: I Ketut Sukarata, I Ketut Gedé Asnawa
Part Three: Pengawak
5. The High Stakes of Competition
6. Agendas of Gender
Part Four: Pengecet
Introduction to the Pengecet
7. Learning to Play: Balinese Experiences
8. Learning to Play: An Ethnomusicologist's Experiences
9. Playing to Learn: Toward New Understandings
Notes
Glossary
Selected Beleganjur Discography (Annotated)
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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