MUS 2420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: A Cappella, Pelog, Saxophone
Document Summary
Intercultural transmission and boundary crossing: case study: new music for balinese gamelan. Indonesian government purposefully exports its music traditions abroad. Ever increasing interest by western composers and ethnomusicologists. Western composers have been inspired by recordings and performances by touring. Indonesian gamelan ensembles are built by new innovative composers for new type of music. The new touristic context resulted in changes: a more rigorous rehearsal schedule, new teachers, new compositions, elaborately decorated instruments and coordinated dance costumes. Greater popularity brought greater income which caused greater competition for the public"s attention. A gamelan gong kebyar in the presidential palace in bali performed truncated versions of tradition music and dance to foreigners. Beginning in the 60s new setting emerged for the g. g. k. Government sponsored schools of music, dance, shadow puppetry, visual arts. Institutions perpetuate a variety of local musical styles. They are sites for innovative composition and choreography and provide an institutional setting for global transmission of balinese music.
