Synonyms of other popular definitions, such as ethnic music or world beat, this label has defined since its first appearance both in the academic world and in the music industry, for all kinds of music that could sound exotic or non-western.
It would be fair to say that most of the people know the term “world music”. more The aim of this paper is to explore the history and progresses of what has been called word music. The aim of this paper is to explore the history and progresses of what has been called word music. L’analisi si sviluppa nel solco della tensione polare tra i concetti di tradizione e innovazione, turistificazione e ortodossia, performance artistica e rituale cerimoniale che la pratica ha vissuto evolvendo fino ad oggi dalla nascita dell’Indonesia indipendente e dalle politiche culturali conseguenti. Nel presente articolo –che si completerà con una seconda parte nel prossimo numero di questa rivista –l’autore problematizza la versione sundanese di tale fenomeno: il kasenian réak. more Quella delle “danze del cavallo”, comunemente conosciute in Indonesia come jaranan, kuda lumping o jathilan, è una famiglia di performance musicali di matrice cerimoniale nella quale un gruppo di artisti guidati da un pawang–figura analoga, in quanto non perfettamente coincidente, a quella dello sciamano –e accompagnati da un ensemble di musicisti, si sottopongono a possessioni volontarie ad opera degli spiriti degli antenati. Quella delle “danze del cavallo”, comunemente conosciute in Indonesia come jaranan, kuda lumping. The outcome will underline which benefits can be obtained by a an approach that gives more value to a context-based ethnography of the possessed and its peculiarities than to the development of a general theory of possession with comparative purposes. I do this in order to show in which sense analyses of the phenomenon of possession based on classification often fail to grasp the complexity and thus the significance of the experience. The purpose of this article is to examine the spirits’ taxonomies at play in réak as a case study. In réak, the possessed behaviour is interpreted by the trance master and members of the group in order to meet the spirit’s various demands and act accordingly to manage the possession.
Thus, more or less different and precise taxonomies may be developed in order to do so. In different possession and trance phenomena around the world recognizing the acting spirit is often the key to communication with the supernatural being and treatment of the possessed. Commonly known in the archipelago as jaranan, kuda lumping or jathilan, the Javanese horse dances are a group of ceremonial musical performances during which a group of performers, led by a trance master, undergo voluntary possessions on behalf of spirits of the ancestors and other supernatural beings, under the influence of a musical ensemble. more Kasenian réak is a regional variant of the Javanese horse dances from Bandung, Indonesia. Kasenian réak is a regional variant of the Javanese horse dances from Bandung, Indonesia.
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