Radical Traditions

Reimagining Culture in Balinese Contemporary Music

By: Andrew Clay McGraw

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Paperback | 28 November 2013

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For the modern West, Bali has long served as an icon of exotic pre-modern innocence. Yet the reality of modern Bali stands in stark contrast to this prevailing and enduring image, a contrast embodied by a movement of local musical experimentation, musik kontemporer, which emerged in the 1970s and which still thrives today. In Radical Traditions, author Andrew Clay McGraw shows how music kontemporer embodies the tensions between culture as represented and lived, between the idea of Balinese culture and the experience of living it. Through a highly interdisciplinary approach informed by ethnomusicology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, anthropology, and theater studies, McGraw presents an all-encompassing social and musical history of musik kontemporer, and its intersections with class, ethnicity, and globalization. As the first English language monograph on this important Indonesian musical genre, Radical Traditions is an essential resource for anyone fascinated by modern
Indonesian and Balinese music and culture.

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This book addresses the advent of contemporary music in Bali ... which is both an extremely complicated and a truly original subject ... I recommend this book to scholars, students and travellers who seek this counter-aesthetic and cultural account of the contemporary Balinese music scene which undermines extant understandings of "Bali". * David Harnish, SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia *

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