Gongs and Pop Songs: Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia

by Jennifer A. Fraser

Book Overview

Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this tendency by exploring a little-known gong tradition from Sumatra called talempong, long associated with people who identify themselves as Minangkabau.

Grounded in rich ethnographic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896802949
• ISBN13: 9780896802940
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"