Contents

Keynote Address

• Dualisms in the Formative and Transformational Processes of Javanese Performing Arts
  Sumarsam

Traditional Repertoires

• Kenyah Kendau Kancet Choral Singing of Indonesian and Malaysian Borneo: Reflections on a Triptych
  Gini Gorlinski
• Defending the Past, Present, and Future of Gamelan Semara Pegulingan Saih Pitu in Kamasan, Bali
  Tyler Yamin
• Performing Rotinese Sasandu-Accompanied Song
  Christopher Basile
• The Gamelan Project: Teaching, Playing with, and Learning from American Schoolchildren Playing Balinese Gamelan
  Alexander K. Khalil

Musical Transmission

• Musical Knowledge, Innovation, and Transmission within the Ecosystem of Balinese Wayang Performance
  Lisa Gold
• The Challenges of Music Sustainability in Lombok, Indonesia
  David Harnish
• The Sustainability and Evolution of Talempong: Pluralism in Minangkabau Gong Practices
  Jennifer Fraser
• The Dancing Goddess: Ecological Memory, Technique, and the Inquiry of Value in Globalized Space
  Rachmi Diyah Larasati

Global Gamelan

• The Ecology of Musical Transmission between Indonesia and the United States
  Ben Brinner
• Air Mengalir: I Madé Lasmawan, Pedagogy, and Musical Kinship in the Transnational Balinese Gamelan Community
  Elizabeth Clendinning
• Indonesian Angklung: Intersections of Music Education and Cultural Diplomacy 
  Meghan Hynson
• A Legacy of Theatricality: Antonin Artaud’s Encounter with Balinese Gamelan
  Cobina Gillitt
• Distant Explosions: Kebyar and the Rite of Spring
  Wayne Vitale
• Lightbulb Ensemble: The Acoustic Concept of an American Gamelan
  Brian Baumbusch

Above: Golek Menak Kakung dance (based on stories of Hamzah) performed at the 2013 “Performing Indonesia” festival by Icuk Ismunanda and Widaru Krefianto Darmawan. (Choreography by Sultan Hamengku Buwana IX, 1941; Freer|Sackler photo)

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