RASA
Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics
Seiten
2010
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-518943-8 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-518943-8 (ISBN)
Rasa is the most thorough treatment to date of this all-important concept at the heart of Javanese aesthetics. Rasa encompasses not only mood and intuition, but also theories of musical perception and cognition, as well as meaning and expression in music.
The complex notion of "rasa," as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa expressed musically? Who or what has rasa, and what sorts of musical, psychological, perceptual, and sociological distinctions enter into this determination? How is the vocabulary of rasa structured, and what does this tell us about traditional Javanese music and aesthetics?
In this first book on the subject, Rasa provides an entry into Javanese music as it is conceived by the people who know the tradition best: the musicians themselves. In one of the most thorough explorations of local aesthetics to date, author Marc Benamou argues that musical meaning is above all connotative - hence, not only learned, but learnable. Following several years performing and researching Javanese music in the regional and national cultural center of Solo, Indonesia, Benamou untangles the many meanings of rasa as an aesthetic criterion in Javanese music, particularly in court and court-derived gamelan traditions. While acknowledging that certain universal psychological tendencies may inspire parallel interpretations of musical meaning, Rasa demonstrates just how culturally specific such accrued, shared meanings can be.
The complex notion of "rasa," as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa expressed musically? Who or what has rasa, and what sorts of musical, psychological, perceptual, and sociological distinctions enter into this determination? How is the vocabulary of rasa structured, and what does this tell us about traditional Javanese music and aesthetics?
In this first book on the subject, Rasa provides an entry into Javanese music as it is conceived by the people who know the tradition best: the musicians themselves. In one of the most thorough explorations of local aesthetics to date, author Marc Benamou argues that musical meaning is above all connotative - hence, not only learned, but learnable. Following several years performing and researching Javanese music in the regional and national cultural center of Solo, Indonesia, Benamou untangles the many meanings of rasa as an aesthetic criterion in Javanese music, particularly in court and court-derived gamelan traditions. While acknowledging that certain universal psychological tendencies may inspire parallel interpretations of musical meaning, Rasa demonstrates just how culturally specific such accrued, shared meanings can be.
Associate professor of music at Earlham College; his writings interweave aesthetics with various other domains, such as gender, food, language, ornithology, and ethics; has performed extensively in Java and abroad as a vocalist of traditional Javanese music, and has founded and directed a number of gamelan ensembles in the U.S.
PREFACE; TECHNICAL NOTES; APPENDIX A: CLASSIFICATIONS OF RASA GENDHING FROM ORAL AND WRITTEN SOURCES; APPENDIX B: HOW IRAMA WORKS; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; DICTIONARIES AND GLOSSARIES; CORPUS: WORKS HAVING CITATIONS OF RASA TERMS AS USED BY JAVANESE EXPERTS IN MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS; GENERAL WORKS; DISCOGRAPHY OF RECORDINGS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT; INDEX
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.10.2010 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | AMS Studies in Music |
| Zusatzinfo | 9 black and white halftones, 38 line illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 244 x 165 mm |
| Gewicht | 632 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-518943-4 / 0195189434 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-518943-8 / 9780195189438 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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