Jean Briggs's Never in Anger as an Ethnography of Experience

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66542/2/10.1177_0308275X9301300406.pd

Aesthetic and Spiritual Correlations in Javanese Gamelan Music

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75272/1/j.1540-594X.2007.00235.x.pd

Heavenly nymphs and earthly delights: Javanese female singers, their music and their lives.

The solo female singer, pesindhen, who performs with the Central Javanese gamelan ensemble, occupies a particularly ambivalent position in Javanese society. She exists uneasily in the gap between the respectable, dispassionate ideal of Javanese womanhood and the enticing, rapturous pull of the flamboyantly dressed prostitute. The Javanese pesindhen, facing conflicting attitudes about how she should behave, cultivates two contrasting personae. On stage, she appears desirable, seductive, and available to her almost exclusively male audience. Off stage, she is under pressure from husbands, acquaintances and some dhalang (puppeteers) to enact the role of the proper Indonesian woman. As a result, who she really is is something of a mystery, and this mystery is the key to her allure. My focus is on the life stories and musical styles of three pesindhen from three different generations. Using the life history methodology, I explore connections between their musical styles, their dress and the stories they tell about themselves. I have tried to present the lives of these musicians in as vivid a manner as possible so that my readers can become acquainted with them as individuals, not merely as types. The pesindhen's vocal style and social role have changed significantly during the past twenty years. As developments in vocal pedagogy and the recording industry have pushed the pesindhen into a star role, her music has become more vaned, ornate, flashy and faster-paced. Her manner of dress, her song lyrics, and her comportment with audience members and dhalang reveal an increasing focus on the pesindhen as a sexual object. Although pesindhen play a crucial role in gamelan music, they have rarely have been the focus of scholarly inquiry. This study opens new ground in two ways. While most previous investigations of gamelan music have focused on the music and its social contexts, this study celebrates the achievements of a few individual musicians. Most research in Javanese music has privileged the elegant, philosophical formulations of theorists and male musicians in positions of power. This project focuses on the experiences of Javanese women musicians, struggling and yet succeeding in a predominately male musical tradition.Ph.D.BiographiesCommunication and the ArtsCultural anthropologyMusicSocial SciencesWomen's studiesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/130154/2/9712116.pd

자바 가믈란 음악에서의 협동, 느낌, 영적, 음악적 교감

Intense interaction among musicians is the distinctive attribute of the Central Javanese gamelan tradition. To perform gamelan pieces, musicians must collaborate in an extremely tight network, for this is in large part, an improvised music. They must co-create the rasa, or feeling of the music. In this paper, I argue that the concept of rasa is a crucial element of collaboration in gamelan music. Borrowed from ancient Indic theory, rasa has both spiritual and aesthetic dimensions. The strong association between rasa and collaboration leads me to a second point: the central position of group collaborative work in the spiritual and musical traditions of Java. Finally, I sketch the consequences of the kinship between these two traditions and the fading role of rasa in the music-making of the younger generation. My examples will be taken from my research on pesindhens, solo female singers. 중앙 자바 가믈란 전통에서 연주자 사이의 긴밀한 상호작용은 독특한 특징이다. 가믈란 작품을 연주하기 위해서 연주자들은 매우 긴밀한 연결망에서 협력 하여야만 한다. 왜냐하면 이것은 많은 부분이 즉흥적인 음악이기 때문이다. 연주자들은 라사 - 또는 음악의 감정 - 를 함께 만들어 내야만 한다. 본고에서 필자는 라사의 개념이 가믈란 음악에서 협력의 필수적인 요소라는 것을 논의 하고자 한다. 고대 인도의 이론에 의하면 라사는 초자연적인 면과 미학적인 측면을 모두 가지고 있다. 두 번째는 라사와 공동작업 사이의 긴밀한 연관이다: 자바의 영적 음악적 전통에서 집단 공동작업의 중심적인 위치가 그것이다. 마지막으로, 필자는 두 전통 사이 연관의 결과와 젊은 세대의 음악 창작에서 라사 역할의 소멸을 간략히 서술할 것이다. 본고에서 참고한 표본은 솔로 여성 가수들인 페신드헨에 관한 연구에 바탕한다

Artropolis 93 : Public Art and Art About Public Issues

Contains 12 texts and documents works by nearly 300 Canadian artists in a Vancouver-based public art project. Includes artist's statements. 7 bibl. ref

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International audienceThe LHCb upgrade represents a major change of the experiment. The detectors have been almost completely renewed to allow running at an instantaneous luminosity five times larger than that of the previous running periods. Readout of all detectors into an all-software trigger is central to the new design, facilitating the reconstruction of events at the maximum LHC interaction rate, and their selection in real time. The experiment's tracking system has been completely upgraded with a new pixel vertex detector, a silicon tracker upstream of the dipole magnet and three scintillating fibre tracking stations downstream of the magnet. The whole photon detection system of the RICH detectors has been renewed and the readout electronics of the calorimeter and muon systems have been fully overhauled. The first stage of the all-software trigger is implemented on a GPU farm. The output of the trigger provides a combination of totally reconstructed physics objects, such as tracks and vertices, ready for final analysis, and of entire events which need further offline reprocessing. This scheme required a complete revision of the computing model and rewriting of the experiment's software

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International audienceThe LHCb upgrade represents a major change of the experiment. The detectors have been almost completely renewed to allow running at an instantaneous luminosity five times larger than that of the previous running periods. Readout of all detectors into an all-software trigger is central to the new design, facilitating the reconstruction of events at the maximum LHC interaction rate, and their selection in real time. The experiment's tracking system has been completely upgraded with a new pixel vertex detector, a silicon tracker upstream of the dipole magnet and three scintillating fibre tracking stations downstream of the magnet. The whole photon detection system of the RICH detectors has been renewed and the readout electronics of the calorimeter and muon systems have been fully overhauled. The first stage of the all-software trigger is implemented on a GPU farm. The output of the trigger provides a combination of totally reconstructed physics objects, such as tracks and vertices, ready for final analysis, and of entire events which need further offline reprocessing. This scheme required a complete revision of the computing model and rewriting of the experiment's software

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The LHCb upgrade represents a major change of the experiment. The detectors have been almost completely renewed to allow running at an instantaneous luminosity five times larger than that of the previous running periods. Readout of all detectors into an all-software trigger is central to the new design, facilitating the reconstruction of events at the maximum LHC interaction rate, and their selection in real time. The experiment's tracking system has been completely upgraded with a new pixel vertex detector, a silicon tracker upstream of the dipole magnet and three scintillating fibre tracking stations downstream of the magnet. The whole photon detection system of the RICH detectors has been renewed and the readout electronics of the calorimeter and muon systems have been fully overhauled. The first stage of the all-software trigger is implemented on a GPU farm. The output of the trigger provides a combination of totally reconstructed physics objects, such as tracks and vertices, ready for final analysis, and of entire events which need further offline reprocessing. This scheme required a complete revision of the computing model and rewriting of the experiment's software

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