Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance - Brossura

Sunardi, Christina

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0252080599 ISBN 13: 9780252080593

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2015

Riassunto

In east Javanese dance traditions like Beskalan and Ngremo, musicians and dancers negotiate gender through performances where males embody femininity and females embody masculinity.

Christina Sunardi ventures into the regency of Malang in east Java to study and perform with dancers. Through formal interviews and casual conversation, Sunardi learns about their lives and art. Her work shows how performers continually transform dance traditions to negotiate, and renegotiate, the boundaries of gender and sex--sometimes reinforcing lines of demarcation, sometimes transgressing them, and sometimes doing both simultaneously. But Sunardi's investigation moves beyond performance. It expands notions of the spiritual power associated with female bodies and feminine behavior, and the ways women, men, andwaria (male-to-female transvestites) access the magnetic power of femaleness.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Christina Sunardi is an associate professor of music at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0252080599
• ISBN 13: 9780252080593
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 217