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Javanese Shadow Plays, Javanese Selves
By (Author) Ward Keeler
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
30th May 2017
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
791.5
Hardback
308
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
595g
As with many performing arts in Asia, neither the highly stylized images of the Javanese shadow play nor its musical complexity detracts from its wide popularity. By a context-sensitive analysis of shadow-play performances, Ward Keeler shows that they fascinate so many people in Java because they dramatize consistent Javanese concerns about potency