Javanese Shadow Plays, Javanese Selves

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Published:
Mar 21, 2017
1987
Pages:
308
Size:
6 x 9.25 in.

As with many performing arts in Asia, neither the highly stylized images of the Javanese shadow play nor its musical complexity detracts from its wide popularity. By a context-sensitive analysis of shadow-play performances, Ward Keeler shows that they fascinate so many people in Java because they dramatize consistent Javanese concerns about potency, status, and speech.

Originally published in 1987.

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