The Sound of the Ancestral Ship
Subtitle: Highland Music of West Java
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 19, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195141559
First sentence: The historical and cultural developments that have dramatically shaped the nature of Sundanese identity in the past century and a half illustrate the reasons for the shift of tembang Sunda musicians from a semirural area to the city of Bandung.
Description: Sound disc contains selections from recording made between 1987-1996 in West Java. Most recordings were made during events typical of tembang Sunda performance.