Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia

Indonesia is celebrated for its courtly arts, its beautiful beaches, its tourist attractions, and its artisan marketplace. Yet long overdue is a look at Indonesian Islam.
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From the rhythmic grooves of dangdut, the archipelago's tenacious pop music, to the oft-quoted image of the wayang shadow puppet-theater, Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia investigates the expression of the Muslim religion through a diversity of art forms in this region. And from Quranic recitation by teenaged girls and women in Jakarta to the provincial patronage of Sufi arts and Muslim ritual as regional performance, this volume further addresses the ways in which Islam-inspired performance has been co-opted and appropriated for the expression of national culture.

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Eleven ethnographic case studies by an international roster of specialists in Indonesian expressive culture and performing arts are complimented by an introduction by co-editors David Harnish and Anne Rasmussen, and an epilogue by senior scholar Judith Becker. The collection explores the region's various micro-cultures of music, dance, religious ritual, government patronage, social censorship, tourism, development, and gender roles and relations.


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This pastiche speaks on personal, political, global, and local levels to the most important question of identity and ideology in Indonesia today: Divine Inspirations will engage readers interested in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Islam, world religions, global discourse, and music, arts and ritual.

Devotion and Art in Java 5. From "Dust" to Platinum: Morality and its Dis contents: Dangdut and Islam in Indonesia Judith Becker: He is author of Bridges to the Ancestors: Special Features Features new theories and unpublished studies based on original and unique ethnographic fieldwork.

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Harnish and Anne K. Rasmussen, the 11 scholarly essays take the reader into unexpected areas, such as the musical forms of Islamic martial arts think of Afro-Brazilian capoeira and its own special music. Indonesia is where Sufism, entering the lexicon as late as , is a disparaging term, as it is associated with saint and guru worship but which was key in spreading Islam because of its mystical practices so similar to Buddhist and Hindu approaches.

The practices of Sufism, if not the formal designation, are still very much active in Indonesia, particularly among those practicing brai mystical music. Two chapters focus on Muslim women, their religious scholarship, and their musical and theatrical performances.

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Another section discusses Arabo-Indonesian fusions in musical arts and the confusion and disputes regarding the relative importance of religious and ethnic roots. The small print over some pages with some photographs, maps, glossary, and musical scores and lyrics support studies of the historical legacy and politics that affect the musical arts. This one book is an education that will significantly broaden the reader's perspective on Islam and on Indonesia and its music. Its strategic location and resources, especially its spices and wood, once brought the Portuguese, the English, and the Dutch to colonize its shores, but the greatest influence on its people has always been religion.

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Divine Inspirations will instill a deep appreciation for historical and modern social-cultural changes at a central global crossroad. Product and picture description is a bit different.


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