Mayco A. Santaella is Professor at the Department of Film and Performing Arts and Dean for the School of Arts at Sunway University. He is the co-editor of Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2021) and editor of Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (under)Currents and Currencies (Sunway University Press, 2022).

• ContentsPrefaceList of FiguresAbbreviations and AcronymsContributors1 Manipulating Notions of Southeast Asian Royal Court Performance: Romanticising, Appropriating, Deconstructing, Inventing and ImaginingRicardo D. Trimillos2 ‘A Name Is All That Remains’: Twenty-first-century Traces of Sundanese Royal Courts in Modern Sundanese Performing ArtsHenry Spiller3 Performing Arts as a Cultural Bridge between Hindu Rulers and Muslim Communities in BaliAko Mashino4 Martial Arts and the Malays of Singapore: from Court Traditions to Contemporary Identity SignifiersMohamed Effendy Abdul Hamid5 The Royal Abduction of Napsa and the Hostaging of Dance: a Discursive Exploration of Why Igal Is Pangalay in the Sulu ArchipelagoM.C.M. Santamaria6 The Fewer the Better: Exclusivity in Royal Thai Court MusicSupeena Insee Adler7 For Soul or for Sale? Javanese Court Dance at a CrossroadsSal Murgiyanto and A.M. Hermien Kusmayati8 Thai Court Performance as Object, Event and AffectDeborah Wong9 Reciprocity and Allegiance of Enduring Intra-kingdom Relationships in Balinese Performing ArtsMade Mantle Hood10 Honouring the Maradika: from Kaili Kingdoms to a Decentralised Neo-royal Provincial GovernmentMayco A. Santaella11 Traditional Performing Arts in the North Coast of Java: Centre–Periphery, Court–Rural DynamicsSumarsam12 Rei(g)ning in a New World: Performing Javanese Kingship to Diverse Contemporary Audiences in Yogyakarta, IndonesiaRoger Vetter13 Discourses of Style and Value in the Performing Arts of the Javanese CourtsR. Anderson SuttonGlossary of Non-English TermsIndex

Mayco A. Santaella is Professor at the Department of Film and Performing Arts and Dean for the School of Arts at Sunway University. He is the co-editor of Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2021) and editor of Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (under)Currents and Currencies (Sunway University Press, 2022).

• ContentsPrefaceList of FiguresAbbreviations and AcronymsContributors1 Manipulating Notions of Southeast Asian Royal Court Performance: Romanticising, Appropriating, Deconstructing, Inventing and ImaginingRicardo D. Trimillos2 ‘A Name Is All That Remains’: Twenty-first-century Traces of Sundanese Royal Courts in Modern Sundanese Performing ArtsHenry Spiller3 Performing Arts as a Cultural Bridge between Hindu Rulers and Muslim Communities in BaliAko Mashino4 Martial Arts and the Malays of Singapore: from Court Traditions to Contemporary Identity SignifiersMohamed Effendy Abdul Hamid5 The Royal Abduction of Napsa and the Hostaging of Dance: a Discursive Exploration of Why Igal Is Pangalay in the Sulu ArchipelagoM.C.M. Santamaria6 The Fewer the Better: Exclusivity in Royal Thai Court MusicSupeena Insee Adler7 For Soul or for Sale? Javanese Court Dance at a CrossroadsSal Murgiyanto and A.M. Hermien Kusmayati8 Thai Court Performance as Object, Event and AffectDeborah Wong9 Reciprocity and Allegiance of Enduring Intra-kingdom Relationships in Balinese Performing ArtsMade Mantle Hood10 Honouring the Maradika: from Kaili Kingdoms to a Decentralised Neo-royal Provincial GovernmentMayco A. Santaella11 Traditional Performing Arts in the North Coast of Java: Centre–Periphery, Court–Rural DynamicsSumarsam12 Rei(g)ning in a New World: Performing Javanese Kingship to Diverse Contemporary Audiences in Yogyakarta, IndonesiaRoger Vetter13 Discourses of Style and Value in the Performing Arts of the Javanese CourtsR. Anderson SuttonGlossary of Non-English TermsIndex

Mayco A. Santaella is Professor at the Department of Film and Performing Arts and Dean for the School of Arts at Sunway University. He is the co-editor of Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2021) and editor of Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (under)Currents and Currencies (Sunway University Press, 2022).

• ContentsPrefaceList of FiguresAbbreviations and AcronymsContributors1 Manipulating Notions of Southeast Asian Royal Court Performance: Romanticising, Appropriating, Deconstructing, Inventing and ImaginingRicardo D. Trimillos2 ‘A Name Is All That Remains’: Twenty-first-century Traces of Sundanese Royal Courts in Modern Sundanese Performing ArtsHenry Spiller3 Performing Arts as a Cultural Bridge between Hindu Rulers and Muslim Communities in BaliAko Mashino4 Martial Arts and the Malays of Singapore: from Court Traditions to Contemporary Identity SignifiersMohamed Effendy Abdul Hamid5 The Royal Abduction of Napsa and the Hostaging of Dance: a Discursive Exploration of Why Igal Is Pangalay in the Sulu ArchipelagoM.C.M. Santamaria6 The Fewer the Better: Exclusivity in Royal Thai Court MusicSupeena Insee Adler7 For Soul or for Sale? Javanese Court Dance at a CrossroadsSal Murgiyanto and A.M. Hermien Kusmayati8 Thai Court Performance as Object, Event and AffectDeborah Wong9 Reciprocity and Allegiance of Enduring Intra-kingdom Relationships in Balinese Performing ArtsMade Mantle Hood10 Honouring the Maradika: from Kaili Kingdoms to a Decentralised Neo-royal Provincial GovernmentMayco A. Santaella11 Traditional Performing Arts in the North Coast of Java: Centre–Periphery, Court–Rural DynamicsSumarsam12 Rei(g)ning in a New World: Performing Javanese Kingship to Diverse Contemporary Audiences in Yogyakarta, IndonesiaRoger Vetter13 Discourses of Style and Value in the Performing Arts of the Javanese CourtsR. Anderson SuttonGlossary of Non-English TermsIndex