Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago

Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 9780520400566
ISBN-13 : 0520400569
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Book Synopsis Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago by : Anna Maria Busse Berger

Download or read book Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago written by Anna Maria Busse Berger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2025 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Although the history of Indonesian music has received much attention from ethnomusicologists and Western composers alike, almost nothing has been written on the interaction of missionaries with local culture. This study represents the first attempt to concentrate on the musical dimension of missionary activities in Indonesia. In fourteen essays, a group of distinguished scholars show the complexity of the topic: while some missionaries did important scholarship on local music, making recordings and attempting to use local music in services, others tried to suppress whatever they found. Many were collaborating closely with anthropologists who admitted freely that they could not have done their work without them. And both parties brought colonial biases into their work. By grappling with these realities and records, this book is a collective effort to decolonize the project of making music histories.


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