Radical Traditions: Reimagining Culture in Balinese Contemporary Music

by Andrew Clay McGraw

For the modern West, Bali has long served as an icon of exotic pre-modern innocence. Yet the reality of modern Bali stands in stark contrast to this prevailing and enduring image, a contrast embodied by a movement of local musical experimentation, musik kontemporer, which emerged in the 1970s and which still thrives today. In Radical Traditions, author Andrew Clay McGraw shows how music kontemporer embodies the tensions between culture as represented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199941424
• ISBN13: 9780199941421
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"