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The Kecak and Cultural Tourism on Bali
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Published/Copyright:
2021
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Examines the history of one of the best known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali and its connection with cultural tourism.
The kecak is one of the best-known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali. Based on the ancient Indian Ramayana epic, it is performed by an ensemble of male and female solo dancers and accompanied by a hundred men who function as both musicians and living scenery. Since its creation in the 1930s, the kecak has been primarily a tourist performance.
Drawing on over twenty years of fieldwork and meticulous archival study, Kendra Stepputat provides here a comprehensive study of the history, form, and cultural significance of the kecak. The first part of the book focuses on the kecak in its present form, including musical, choreographic, and dramatic elements. The connection between cultural tourism on Bali and kecak performance practice is analyzed in detail, including the dependency between tourism professionals and artists and ways of promoting the kecak. Tourists' perspectives on the kecak are addressed separately. The second part deals with the genesis and development of the kecak from the 1930s onward, exploring how it became and stayed a tourist genre for more than eighty years.
The kecak is one of the best-known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali. Based on the ancient Indian Ramayana epic, it is performed by an ensemble of male and female solo dancers and accompanied by a hundred men who function as both musicians and living scenery. Since its creation in the 1930s, the kecak has been primarily a tourist performance.
Drawing on over twenty years of fieldwork and meticulous archival study, Kendra Stepputat provides here a comprehensive study of the history, form, and cultural significance of the kecak. The first part of the book focuses on the kecak in its present form, including musical, choreographic, and dramatic elements. The connection between cultural tourism on Bali and kecak performance practice is analyzed in detail, including the dependency between tourism professionals and artists and ways of promoting the kecak. Tourists' perspectives on the kecak are addressed separately. The second part deals with the genesis and development of the kecak from the 1930s onward, exploring how it became and stayed a tourist genre for more than eighty years.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Kendra Stepputat
KENDRA STEPPUTAT is Assistant Professor and currently Head of the Institute of Ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts (KUG) Graz (Austria).
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Note to the Reader
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Introduction
1 - Part 1: The Present
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1 Kecak: The Music
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2 Kecak: The Dance
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3 Kecak: The Drama
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4 The Social Organization of Kecak
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5 Kecak: The Tourist Performance
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6 From Sanghyang Dedari to Kecak
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7 The First Kecak
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8 Almost a Century of Kecak
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1. Kecak dan Wisata Budaya di Bali (Indonesian Summary by I Wayan Sudirana)
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2. Kecak Groups of Bali in 2000–2001 (Badung and Gianyar)
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3. Facsimile of a Letter from Walter Spies to Leo Spies, 1932
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Glossary
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
February 28, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781800103092
Original publisher:
University of Rochester Press
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eBook ISBN:
9781800103092
Keywords for this book
Kecak; Cultural Tourism; Bali; Dramatic Dance Performance; Indian Ramayana Epic; Male and Female Solo Dancers; Musicians; Living Scenery; Tourist Performance; Fieldwork; Kendra Stepputat; History; Cultural Significance; Tourists' Perspectives; African Tradition
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
