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Music of the Baduy people of western Java : singing is a medicine

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Music of the Baduy People of Western Java: Singing is a Medicine by Wim van Zanten is about music and dance of the indigenous group of the Baduy, consisting of about twelve-thousand people living in western Java. It covers music for rice rituals, for circumcisions and weddings, and music for entertainment. The book includes many photographs and several discussed audio-visual examples that can be found on DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5170520. Baduy are suppposed to live a simple, ascetic life. However, there is a shortage of agricultural land and there are many temptations from the changing world around them. Little has been published on Baduy music and dance. Wim van Zanten’s book seeks to fill this lacuna and is based on short periods of fieldwork from 1976 to 2016. Readership: Ethnomusicologists and anthropologists, especially those interested in ethnic minority groups. It is also meant for scholars, NGOs and administrators of intangible cultural heritage and people of Baduy des

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Series Title

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 313

Call Number

781.6259824 VAN m

Publisher

Leiden - Boston : Brii., 2020

Collation

XXVII, 395 p.

Language

English

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9789004444478

Classification

781.6259824

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Manners and customs
Music
Music--Social aspects
Badui (Indonesian people)--Social life and customs
Indonesia--Kanekes

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