The Sound of the Ancestral Ship
Subtitle: Highland Music of West Java CD-ROM included
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195141542
Subjects: Asian studies; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles; Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"; Social classes; Urban communities; Ethnomusicology; Manners And Customs; Music/Songbooks; Music; Indonesia; Folk & Traditional; Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional; Music / Ethnomusicology; History and criticism; Jawa Barat; Sundanese (Indonesian people)
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.