Music as episteme, text, sign & tool
Subtitle: comparative approaches to musicality as performance
By: Zachar Laskewicz.
Publisher: Saru
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Music -- Semiotics.; Music -- Indonesia -- Bali Island -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Performance practice (Music) -- Indonesia -- Bali Island.; Music -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes glossary (p. 247-261).

Bibliography: p. 239-245.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. The musical episteme. The fixity-flexibility schism ; The musical episteme ; Multimediality and multisensoriality ; Empowering the individual : musical experience and cognition ; Music as an epistemological tool ; Contrasting musical epistemes : systems for the conception of music ; Factors influencing the Balinese musical episteme ; The musical episteme : towards a model ; Conclusion : towards a musical episteme; title: Ch. 2. The musical text. Existing approaches to texts ; Text as performance ; Text as a tool for cultural perpetuation and change ; The musical text ; Text as a means for perpetuating Balinese culture ; Progressive cultural texts as rites of modernization ; The avant-garde musical text : Kreasi Baru, Gong Kebyar and its performative environment ; Self-reflexive textuality ; Intercultural texts ; Conclusion : the importance of a new approach to text; title: Ch. 3. The musical text as an embedded and embodied sign. The embedded sign ; The process of semiosis ; Understanding habitus ; Musical signs and embodiment ; The adaptive nature of Balinese signs in performance ; Organic nature of the musical sign ; Spatial and temporal aspects of the embodied sign ; Change in the Balinese embodied sign ; Conclusion : the organic musical sign; title: Ch. 4. Musicality as a sociocultural tool. The pervading musical paradigm ; Cultural competence : perspective on music and society ; The Gong Kebyar phenomenon ; Bali in the context of old and new order Indonesia ; Political influence in Balinese cultural events : STSI ; Musical competitions : expressions of Balinese archetypes in a constantly changing form ; Recent developments in Balinese music and dance ; Balinese youth turning to Western pop ; New fusion forms in contemporary Balinese performance ; Conclusion : the future of Balinese music.