Pontjopangrawit's Youth: Becoming an Activist and Artist, 1893 to
1927
Life in Boven Digul from 1927 to 1943: The Gamelan Is Made and
Departs for Australia
Pontjopangrawit's Life and Work between 1932 and 1965
The Australian Connection, 1943 to the Present
The Gamelan Digul as an Organological Artefact and Its Recent
Conservation
A Photographic Study of the Gamelan Digul
MARGARET KARTOMI, AM, FAHA, Dr. Phil, is the Professor of Music at Monash University. She has published over a hundred articles, several books, and notes for CDs and LPs of the music of various parts of Indonesia and other ethnomusicological topics. She was elected a member of the Australian Academy of Humanities in 1982 and was awarded the Order of Australia for services to Southeast Asian music in 1991.
A fascinating biographical account. . . the book is outstanding
material for teaching a concept that readers surely will not miss:
that, beyond artifice, music has served well the workings of power
and radical politics.
*JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, Vol 62:4*
Such is the remarkable achievement of Margaret Kartomi's patient
and obviously loving efforts with this project. A 'little book'
perhaps, but one for which the author and publisher are due our
special thanks.
*ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW*
One of the most special gamelan[s] outside of Indonesia . . . is
the subject of Margaret Kartomi's monograph, The Gamelan Digul and
the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It. . . . An elegant and tuneful
field recording of Pontjopangrawit's rebab playing made by Hood is
included as an 'extra feature' on the CD. . . . Kartomi presents a
compelling yarn. --
*BIJDRAGEN TOT DE TAAL-, LAND- EN VOLKENKUNDE*
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
