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Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java.(Book Review)
Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java. By Andrew N. Weintraub. (Ohio University Research in International Studies. Southeast Asia Series, no. 110.) Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. [xvii, 295 p. ISBN 981-230-249-2. $30.] Illustrations, music examples, glossary, bibliography, index, CD-ROM.
This excellent book presents a lively account of the current state of a theatrical genre of prime importance to the Sundanese living in the western part of Java, Indonesia. It is always necessary when writing for an audience that is comprised of non-Indonesianists to explain that puppet theater in Java does not mean children's theater. The puppet theater ...
- Contest-ing Culture: Sundanese Wayang Golek Purwa Competitions in New Order...
- Magazine article from: Asian Theatre Journal Weintraub, Andrew N. March 22, 2001 700+ words
...hereafter wayang golek) contests...institutions in New Order Indonesia...During the New Order period, wayang golek became a privileged...culture and New Order politics...Sundanese wayang golek contests became...
- Power Plays: Wayang Golek Theater of West Java.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Asian Theatre Journal Cohen, Matthew Isaac September 22, 2005 700+ words
...ROM. Paper $30.00. Wayang golek purwa (also known as wayang golek), the traditional rod puppet...there were actually fewer wayang golek performances in West Java...whole during the so-called New Order regime of President Soeharto...
- Voices of the Puppet Masters: The Wayang Golek Theater of Indonesia. (Book...
- Magazine article from: Asian Theatre Journal Brown, Ian Jarvis March 22, 2003 700+ words
VOICES OF THE PUPPET MASTERS: THE WAYANG GOLEK THEATER OF INDONESIA. By Mimi Herbert...in West Java to Blitar in East Java. Wayang golek is Java-centric in Mimi Herbert...been a work of such passion devoted to wayang golek providing not only a wealth of scholarship...
- Voices of the puppet masters: the wayang golek theater of Indonesia.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Mrazek, Jan October 1, 2003 700+ words
...personal excursion into the world of the wayang golek puppet theater of Indonesia' (p...project shifted to an oral history of wayang golek, told in the voices of puppet masters...supernatural events, convey the world of the wayang golek theater directly and personally, in...
- Indonesia: Wayang Golek: The Sound And Celebration Of Sundanese Puppet...
- Magazine article from: Sing Out! Dorsett, Richard March 22, 2002 700+ words
...SUNARYA AND GIRI HARJA III Indonesia: Wayang Golek: The Sound And Celebration Of Sundanese...the popular performance art called wayang golek. The set presents an entire telling...of a package. In its presentation, Wayang Golek is complex and elaborate. What stands...
- The Origin of Kala: A Sundanese Wayang Golek Purwa Play by Abah Sunarya and...
- Magazine article from: Asian Theatre Journal Foley, Kathy March 22, 2001 700+ words
...scenes from a performance done on December 24, 1978, at Cibintinu near Bandung in West Java were presented in the style of wayang golek purwa -- a wooden rod-puppet theatre telling Ramayana and Mahabharata stories that is popular among the Sundanese-speakers...
- Wayang Golek, Yogyakarta. Lokayanti, Prince Machtal, Kuraisin.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- West Java. Wayang Golek. Performance on Dieng Plateau. 193?
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words