Stunning Males and Powerful Females

Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance

AvChristina Sunardi

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In east Javanese dance traditions like Beskalan and Ngremo, musicians and dancers negotiate gender through performances where males embody femininity and females embody masculinity.

Christina Sunardi ventures into the regency of Malang in east Java to study and perform with dancers. Through formal interviews and casual conversation, Sunardi learns about their lives and art. Her work shows how performers continually transform dance traditions to negotiate, and renegotiate, the boundaries of gender and sex--sometimes reinforcing lines of demarcation, sometimes transgressing them, and sometimes doing both simultaneously. But Sunardi''s investigation moves beyond performance. It expands notions of the spiritual power associated with female bodies and feminine behavior, and the ways women, men, and waria (males who dress and live as female) access the magnetic power of femaleness.

A journey into understudied regions and ideas, Stunning Males and Powerful Females reveals how performances seemingly fixed by tradition are instead dynamic environments for cultural negotiation and change surrounding questions of sex and gender.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-02-15
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252096914
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

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Christina Sunardi is an associate professor of music at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Recensioner i media

Co-winner, Philip Brett Award, LBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society (AMS), 2016. Honorable mention, Alan Merriam Prize, 2016.— LBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society (AMS)Co-winner, Philip Brett Award, LBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society (AMS), 2016. Honorable mention, Alan Merriam Prize, 2016.— Alan Merriam Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology

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CoverTitleContentsNote on ConventionsPreface: InspirationAcknowledgments1. Aims and Approaches2. Maintaining Female Power through Male Style Dance3. Negotiating Pressures in Terms of Gender: Male Dancers and Female Style Dance4. Constructing Gender and Tradition through Senses of History5. Maintaining the Representation of Female Power through Beskalan Putri6. Where Tradition, Power, and Gender Intersect: Performer InteractionsAfterwordNotesGlossaryWorks CitedIndex