Children Dancing in Bali

Practice, Performance, and Power

Jonathan McIntosh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-968-1 (ISBN)

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The question of power and agency between children and adults within the context of traditional Balinese dance remains multilayered. While adults exercise authority over children in formal settings, an alternative dynamic exists outside the confines of traditional performance contexts where children operate as artistic agents. In this illuminating ethnographic study of Balinese dance traditions, Jonathan McIntosh examines how children navigate the nexus of practice, performance, and power through the medium of Balinese culture. From structured dance classes to gatherings that embrace popular music, Children Dancing in Bali spotlights the creative potential of Balinese performance practices to negotiate identity and society.

Jonathan McIntosh is an Associate Professor in Music and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, based at Edith Cowan University. Focusing on questions of identity, movement, and music in anthropology and ethnomusicology, he has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Bali, Indonesia. His recent publications include chapters in The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking (Routledge, 2018), Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Essays on Collective Creativity and Social Agency (Oxford University Press, 2017), and The Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts (Routledge, 2016).

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Technical Notes

Introduction: Bali, Dance, Power

Chapter 1. Fieldwork, Experience, Language: Shaping the Ethnographer

Chapter 2. Continuity, Change, Creation: Children’s Songs and Song-Games

Chapter 3. Community, Discipline, Control: Teaching and Learning Dance

Chapter 4. Preparation, Presentation, Power: Performing Dance

Chapter 5. Gender, Emotions, Landscape: Dancing Children’s Barong

Chapter 6. Power, Agency, “Disco”: Localizing Popular Music and Dance

Conclusion: Moving Through Tradition

Appendix: Dance Repertoire Commonly Taught at Sanggar Seni Mumbul Sari

Glossary

Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2025
Reihe/Serie	Dance and Performance Studies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-968-3 / 1805399683
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-968-1 / 9781805399681
Zustand	Neuware