Anna Maria Busse Berger is Distinguished Professor of Music emerita at the University of California, Davis and the author of The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, Medieval Music and the Art of Memory, and Mensuration and Proportion Signs.Henry Spiller is Professor of Music emeritus at the University of California, Davis and the author of Erotic Triangles, Javaphilia, Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java, and Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia.

“A foray into historical ethnomusicology. . . . Trace[s] multiple historical narratives . . . about music practices in the Indonesian archipelago generated and curated by Western missionaries and anthropologists. . . . This work makes key contributions to both methodologies for studying music practices and discourse concerning the relationship between missionaries and anthropologists in and beyond Indonesia.”

• ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry SpillerPART I. EARLY MODERN MUSIC HISTORY IN INDONESIA1. Iberian Sources for the Historiography of Musics in the Early Modern Moluccas (Maluku) David R. M. Irving2. A European Music Treatise Published in Late Eighteenth-Century Batavia (Jakarta) Estelle Joubert and David R. M. IrvingPART II. MISSIONARIES AND LOCAL MUSIC IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY3. “I am in no way surprised that the Javanese can listen to it all night long”: A Nineteenth-Century  Dutch Missionary on Javanese Music Henry Spiller4. The Issue of the Javanese Church Songs Bernard ArpsPART III. LOCAL CHURCH MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY5. The Heathen in His Blindness? Missionaries, Empire, and Anti-colonialism David A. Hollinger6. “Sing, Choirs of New Jerusalem”: Hymnody and Sincerity in the Christian Tobalands Julia Byl7. A Missional Legacy: Musik Inkulturasi and Printing Localized Catholic Hymnals in Indonesia Emilie Rook8. Gaya X: An Ethnomusicological Look at Lagu Inkulturasi Philip YampolskyPART IV. MISSIONARIES AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS9. Reconsidering the Place of Missionaries in Ethnomusicological History: Jaap Kunst and the  Fathers of the Divine Word in Flores Dustin Wiebe10. Jaap Kunst and the German Missionaries in Nias Anna Maria Busse BergerPART V. TECHNOLOGIES OF INDOCTRINATION11. History and Mythology in Javanese Performing Arts Sumarsam12. Dakwah, Missionizing, and Wayang: Hindu, Islamic, Christian, Buddhist Kathy FoleyPART VI. TECHNOLOGIES OF PRESERVATION: ARCHIVES13. Has “God” Made the Apparatus? Missionaries as Phonographic Mediators in New Guinea and Melanesia Sebastian Klotz14. Epistemic Shifts and Ideological Persistence: Ethnographic, Archival, and Historiographical  Practices in the Legacy of Jaap Kunst Barbara TitusBibliography Contributors Index

Anna Maria Busse Berger is Distinguished Professor of Music emerita at the University of California, Davis and the author of The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, Medieval Music and the Art of Memory, and Mensuration and Proportion Signs.Henry Spiller is Professor of Music emeritus at the University of California, Davis and the author of Erotic Triangles, Javaphilia, Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java, and Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia.

“A foray into historical ethnomusicology. . . . Trace[s] multiple historical narratives . . . about music practices in the Indonesian archipelago generated and curated by Western missionaries and anthropologists. . . . This work makes key contributions to both methodologies for studying music practices and discourse concerning the relationship between missionaries and anthropologists in and beyond Indonesia.”

• ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry SpillerPART I. EARLY MODERN MUSIC HISTORY IN INDONESIA1. Iberian Sources for the Historiography of Musics in the Early Modern Moluccas (Maluku) David R. M. Irving2. A European Music Treatise Published in Late Eighteenth-Century Batavia (Jakarta) Estelle Joubert and David R. M. IrvingPART II. MISSIONARIES AND LOCAL MUSIC IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY3. “I am in no way surprised that the Javanese can listen to it all night long”: A Nineteenth-Century  Dutch Missionary on Javanese Music Henry Spiller4. The Issue of the Javanese Church Songs Bernard ArpsPART III. LOCAL CHURCH MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY5. The Heathen in His Blindness? Missionaries, Empire, and Anti-colonialism David A. Hollinger6. “Sing, Choirs of New Jerusalem”: Hymnody and Sincerity in the Christian Tobalands Julia Byl7. A Missional Legacy: Musik Inkulturasi and Printing Localized Catholic Hymnals in Indonesia Emilie Rook8. Gaya X: An Ethnomusicological Look at Lagu Inkulturasi Philip YampolskyPART IV. MISSIONARIES AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS9. Reconsidering the Place of Missionaries in Ethnomusicological History: Jaap Kunst and the  Fathers of the Divine Word in Flores Dustin Wiebe10. Jaap Kunst and the German Missionaries in Nias Anna Maria Busse BergerPART V. TECHNOLOGIES OF INDOCTRINATION11. History and Mythology in Javanese Performing Arts Sumarsam12. Dakwah, Missionizing, and Wayang: Hindu, Islamic, Christian, Buddhist Kathy FoleyPART VI. TECHNOLOGIES OF PRESERVATION: ARCHIVES13. Has “God” Made the Apparatus? Missionaries as Phonographic Mediators in New Guinea and Melanesia Sebastian Klotz14. Epistemic Shifts and Ideological Persistence: Ethnographic, Archival, and Historiographical  Practices in the Legacy of Jaap Kunst Barbara TitusBibliography Contributors Index