Performance in Java and Bali

by Bernard Arps

The studies in this book examine traditional performance genres in the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali. They cover puppet and human theatre, dance, sung narrative, narrative temple reliefs, and vocal and instrumental music, span a period of more than a thousand years, and range over four cultural complexes: Sundanese in western Java, Javanese in central and eastern Java, Chinese in eastern Java, and Balinese in Bali.

260 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 1993

About the author

Bernard Arps is professor of Indonesian and Javanese Language and Culture at Leiden University.