Erotic triangles : Sundanese dance and masculinity in West Java /
Author / Creator: | Spiller, Henry. |
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Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 251 pages) : illustrations. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Chicago studies in ethnomusicology Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11347547 |
Summary: | In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there--be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen--breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to the rhythm at village ceremonies, weddings, political rallies, and nightclubs. The music the men dance to varies from traditional gong ensembles to the contemporary pop known as dangdut , but they consistently dance with great enthusiasm. In Erotic Triangles , Henry Spiller draws on decades of ethnographic research to explore the reasons behind this phenomenon, arguing that Sundanese men use dance to explore and enact contradictions in their gender identities. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 251 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780226769585 0226769585 9780226769592 0226769593 9780226769608 0226769607 |