Kesenian tradisional Janger Banyuwangi merupakan kesenian hasil perpaduan antara kebudayaan Jawa, Bali, dan Banyuwangi. Kesenian ini muncul dan berkembang awalnya karena mendapat pengaruh berbagai seni pertunjukan dari beberapa daerah lain yang sudah ada terlebih dahulu, seperti Wayang Orang, Langendriya, Ketoprak, Ludruk, Gambuh Bali, dan Arja. Buku ini selain mengulas tentang seluk beluk k…
Candi Jago di Malang, Jawa Timur adalah salah satu peninggalan sejarah yang sangat kental akan nilai kehidupan. Pahatan pada sisi dinding candi banyak mengisahkan tentang tokoh kepercayaan Hindu dan Buddha, seperti Arjuna, Kresna, sampai Angling Dharma. Hadirnya buku Candi Pustaka ini diharapkan dapat memberikan pemahaman baru akan nilai-nilai kehidupan dengan penyajian kekinian. Di samping …
This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well as contemp…
Scientific diving has been going on for decades in Indonesia. One of the scientific diving activities is monitoring coral reef ecosystems, better known as the coral reef condition assessment methodology. However, the vastness of Indonesia’s waters is challenging to monitor coral reefs together. Therefore, one coral reef monitoring strategy is creating nodes or regional representation in vario…
In this open access book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate and stage various forms of vulnerability in the Scandinavian welfare states. How do discourses of privilege and vulnerability coexist and interact in Scandinavia? How do the Scandinavian countries respond to vulnerability given increased migration? How is v…
After its predecessors turned humans and organizations into machines, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is turning machines into humans. As digital machines acquire more and more cognitive intelligence, the development of humans becomes ever more vital, for society and business alike. Time has come to recognize the value of art and humanities. As the world experiences massive turbulence and comp…
The aim of this book is to present a number of digital and technology solutions to real-world problems across transportation sectors and infrastructures. Nine chapters have been well prepared and organized with the core topics as follows: -A guideline to evaluate the energy efficiency of a vehicle -A guideline to design and evaluate an electric propulsion system -Potential opportunities for int…
Over time Dutch and Indonesian musicians have inspired each other and they continue to do so. Recollecting Resonances offers a way of studying these musical encounters and a mutual heritage one today still can listen to.
This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization. At the heart of much of their writing lay the ideological project of nation-building. Hence discourses around periodization – such as the mythicizing of certain periods, the invention of historical continuity and the a…
Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music by Steven Jan is a comprehensive account of the relationships between evolutionary theory and music. Examining the ‘evolutionary algorithm’ that drives biological and musical-cultural evolution, the book provides a distinctive commentary on how musicality and music can shed light on our understanding of Darwin’s famous theory, and vice-versa.