Voices of the Puppet Masters
Voices of the Puppet Masters

Author: Mimi Herbert

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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"Indonesia's wayang golek puppet theater is among the world's oldest and richest puppetry traditions, contemporary with Japanese Noh drama and the mystery plays of Europe. The puppet masters, many of whom trace their skills back through seven or eight generations, are extraordinary artists. Some are shamans, and many are charismatic performers. The master carvers who create these three-dimensional wooden puppets boast similarly impressive genealogies, and their work draws equally on ancient mystical practices. As the puppet master Tizar Purbaya once explained, "The wayang puppet is not a doll. It follows the dalang [puppet master], but the dalang must also follow it. He gives it soul and it, in return, gives life to him."" "Voices of the Puppet Masters is based on five years of intensive research in Indonesia, including hundreds of hours of discussions and interviews with puppet masters and craftsmen. The author and her Indonesian collaborator visited the artists in their homes, in villages scattered across the length and breadth of Java, attending performances, and even participating in an exorcism ceremony. These performances typically last for many hours, sometimes through the night - theatrical extravaganzas blending religious mysticism with all of the frailties and strengths of the human condition, accompanied by song and a gamelan orchestra"--Publisher's description.

Wayang Golek
Wayang Golek

Author: Peter Buurman

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13:

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Since the early nineteenth century, foreigners have been fascinated by Javanese puppet theatre or wayang. This book is concerned with one form of wayang found exclusively in West Java or Sunda. Wayang golek is performed with three-dimensional wooden rod-puppets, and its repertoire ofstories is taken from the great Indian epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

Painting and Performance
Painting and Performance

Author: Victor H. Mair

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2019-03-31

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0824881141

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In this extraordinary work of scholarship, Victor Mair traces the global development over a thousand years of a genre of popular Buddhist folk literature from China known as pien-wen, pointing out its origins in India as a form of oral storytelling using painting as an aid, and showing how that form has influenced performance and literary traditions in India, Indonesia, Japan, Central Asia, the near East, Italy, France, and Germany. Professor Mair's research has important implications for students and scholars of literature, folklore, painting, religion, history, art, and theater and the performing arts, not to mention Chinese popular culture and Indian civilization.

Power Plays
Power Plays

Author: Andrew Noah Weintraub

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 089680240X

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork spanning twenty years, Power Plays is the first scholarly book in English on wayang golek, the Sundanese rod-puppet theater of West Java. It is a detailed and lively account of the ways in which performers of this major Asian theatrical form have engaged with political discourses in Indonesia. Wayang golek has shaped, as well, the technological and commercial conditions of art and performance in a modernizing society. Using interviews with performers, musical transcriptions, translations of narrative and song texts, and archival materials, author Andrew N. Weintraub analyzes the shifting and flexible nature of a set of performance practices called Padalangan, the art of the puppeteer. He focuses on "superstar" performers and the musical troupes that dominated wayang golek during the New Order political regime of former president Suharto (1966-98) and the ensuing three years of the post-Suharto period. Studies of actual performances illuminate stylistic and formal elements and situate wayang golek as a social process in Sundanese culture and society. Power Plays includes an interactive multimedia CD-ROM of wayang golek. Power Plays shows how meanings about identity, citizenship, and community are produced through theater, music, language, and discourse. While based in ethnographic theory and methods, this book is at the center of a new synthesis emerging among ethnomusicology, anthropology, and cultural studies. Its cross-disciplinary approach will inspire researchers studying similar struggles over cultural authority and popular representation in culture and the performing arts.

Notebook
Notebook

Author: WayangC Notebook

Publisher:

Published: 2020-01-15

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9781660999545

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College Ruled Color Paperback. Size: 6 inches x 9 inches. 55 sheets (110 pages for writing). Wayang Golek Is A Wooden Puppet Art From Sunda Indonesi. 157880625761

Indonesia has Stories
Indonesia has Stories

Author: Yusuf

Publisher: CERDAS INTERAKTIF

Published:

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13:

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It is certainly not Indonesia if the country doesn’t have plenty of unique, interesting stories with a variety of traditions and cultures, so that thanks to the behavior of the community, the country of various ethnics has many stories. One of them is the story about traditional fire ball that highly amazes western media. “The Premier League may have produced the “hottest” players in the world, but they are nothing compared to the fire ball players”, one of English newspapers write. It is just fire ball, not to mention the still plenty of cultures and customs that is only available in Indonesia. CERDAS INTERAKTIF

The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre
The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre

Author: James R. Brandon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-01-28

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780521588225

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A comprehensive and authoritative single-volume reference work on the theatre arts of Asia-Oceania. Nine expert scholars provide entries on performance in twenty countries from Pakistan in the west, through India and Southeast Asia to China, Japan and Korea in the east. An introductory pan-Asian essay explores basic themes - they include ritual, dance, puppetry, training, performance and masks. The national entries concentrate on the historical development of theatre in each country, followed by entries on the major theatre forms, and articles on playwrights, actors and directors. The entries are accompanied by rare photographs and helpful reading lists.

Introduction to Puppetry Arts
Introduction to Puppetry Arts

Author: Cheralyn Lambeth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-13

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0429810334

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Introduction to Puppetry Arts shares the history, cultures, and traditions surrounding the ancient performance art of puppetry, along with an overview of puppet construction and performance techniques used around the world. From its earliest beginnings in the ancient Middle East and Asia, through its representations in Medieval/Renaissance Europe, up until its modern-day appearances in theatre, television, and film, this book offers a thorough overview of how this fascinating art form originated and evolved. It also includes easy-to-follow instructions on how to create puppets for performance and display and an in-depth resource list and bibliography for further research and information. Written for students in puppetry arts and stagecraft courses, Introduction to Puppetry Arts offers a comprehensive look at this enduring craft and provides a starting point for creating a wide range of puppets, from marionettes and hand puppets to mascots and character costumes.