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Author Sutton, Richard Anderson.

Title Calling back the spirit : music, dance, and cultural politics in lowland South Sulawesi / R. Anderson Sutton.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index.
Contents List of Illustrations; Contents of Compact Disk; Orthography, Abbreviations, and Conventions; 1 Introduction; 2 South Sulawesi on Parade: Representations of the Local in the Culture Week Festival; 3 From Ritual Enactment to Stage Entertainment: Andi Nurhani Sapada and the Aestheticization of South Sulawesi's Music and Dance, 1940s-1970s; 4 From Entertainment to Art and Back to Ritual: The Struggle for Legitimacy and Artistic Power, 1970s-1990s; 5 Patriotism and Performance: One Holiday, Two Forts, Three Events.
Summary Calling Back the Spirit' describes how, in the face of Indonesian and foreign cultural pressures, the Makassarese people of South Sulawesi defend their local spirit through music and dance. The book examines the ways performers seek to empower local music and dance in a changing environment.
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Subject Makasar (Indonesian people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Makasar (Indonesian people)
Rites and ceremonies.
Makasar (Indonesian people) -- Music.
Genre/Form Music.
Subject Makasar (Indonesian people) -- Folklore.
Genre/Form Folklore.
Subject Folk dancing, Indonesian -- Indonesia -- Sulawesi Selatan.
Folk dancing, Indonesian.
Indonesia -- Sulawesi Selatan.
Folklore -- Performance -- Indonesia -- Sulawesi Selatan.
Folklore -- Performance.
Sulawesi Selatan (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sutton, Richard Anderson. Calling back the spirit. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 (DLC) 2001036392
ISBN 9780195112368 (alkaline paper)
0195112369 (alkaline paper)
1602561788
9781602561786
142375963X (electronic book)
9781423759638 (electronic book)
1280453648
9781280453649
0195112369 (alkaline paper)