A01=Ellen Koskoff
angklung kocok
Author_Ellen Koskoff
Bakan
Bali
Balinese courts
bamboo
banjar
Baturiti
Buddhism
bumbung
Category=AVA
Category=AVLT
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comparative musicology
cooperative groups
cremation
cremation ritual
Davidson
death rituals
dharma
Dutch colonialism
Eiseman
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ethnomusicology
field recordings
fieldwork
fixed beat
flow-paths
gamelan beleganjur
gending
genggong
gong kebyar
groupness
Herbst
Hinduism
history of Bali
Indianization
Indonesia
Indonesian independence
induction
interlocking elaborations
internal cycles
Kerambitan
listening guides
Majapahit
McPhee
meter
music analysis
music offerings
music processing
musical flow
musical references
musical texture
niskala
noninterlocking elaborations
notation
Ornstein
pemungkah
pengawak
pengiba
performance
performing practice
phrase length
raja
rame
rasa
recruiting
ritual identity
saih angklung
sekala
sekehe
sepi
situated knowledge
social identity
Suadin
suling
Suweca
Tabanan
tempo
Tenzer
tua
Vitale
wayang kulit
wet-rice agriculture
Wikan
Product details
- ISBN 9780252088735
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jul 2025
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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An important presence through centuries of musical and social change, gamelan angklung is a small, four-tone bronze-keyed ensemble that remains ubiquitous at cremations in Bali. Ellen Koskoff offers a compelling portrait of these little-studied orchestras and their members: rice farmers, eatery owners, and other locals who do not see themselves as musicians or what they play as music.
Koskoff examines the history, cultural significance, and musical structures of contemporary gamelan angklung cremation music through the lens of three intertwined stories: existing scholarship on this music, written mostly by Western composers and scholars; the views of those performing and experiencing the music who regard it as dharma--ritual obligation, a basic concept in Balinese Hinduism; and the music itself, with a musical analysis focusing on changes in rasa--feeling, flavor and musical flow.
A journey inside a tradition, Bittersweet Sounds of Passage reveals the overlooked music of an important ritual in Balinese village life.
Ellen Koskoff is Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Her many books include the award-winning Music in Lubavitcher Life and A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender.
