Inventing the Performing Arts: Modernity and Tradition in Colonial Indonesia 9780824855598

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Inventing the Performing Arts: Modernity and Tradition in Colonial Indonesia
 9780824855598

Table of contents :
Contents
A Note On Orthography And Language Use
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Common Ground For Arts And Popular Entertainments 1 “Every Night There Are Entertainments”
II. The Maelstrom Of Modernity 61 “Protecting And Ennobling Our Family Pusaka”
III. Occupation And “Greater Asian” Modernity 175 “No More Musicians, No More Writers”
Conclusion. Performing Arts After Colonialism
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
About The Author

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