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HERITAGE IN MOTION: SAFEGUARDING THE CULTURAL LEGACY OF WAYANG KULIT KEDU, INDONESIA
This article explores the dynamic interplay between tradition and modernity in preserving Wayang Kulit Kedu, an important Indonesian cultural heritage art performance. It identifies the diminishing engagement of the younger generations with traditional arts as a critical issue. The objective was to assess strategies for revitalizing youth interest in Wayang Kulit Kedu. This study uses a qualitative approach to analyze historical data, contemporary practices, and educational initiatives. This conclusion underscores the importance of integrating Wayang Kulit Kedu into educational curricula, leveraging digital platforms for broader dissemination, and fostering community-based preservation efforts. These strategies are essential for ensuring the survival and relevance of the art form in modern society, highlighting its unique cultural value, and fostering a sustainable connection with future generations.
Journal Article
Shadows of empire : colonial discourse and Javanese tales
Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move from village performances and palace manuscripts into colonial texts and nationalist journals and, most recently, comic books and novels. Historical, anthropological, and literary in its method and insight, this work offers a dramatic reassessment of both Javanese literary/theatrical production and Dutch scholarship on Southeast Asia.
Though Javanese shadow theater (wayang) has existed for hundreds of years, our knowledge of its history, performance practice, and role in Javanese society only begins with Dutch documentation and interpretation in the nineteenth century. Analyzing the Mahabharata and Ramayana tales in relation to court poetry, Islamic faith, Dutch scholarship, and nationalist journals, Sears shows how the shadow theater as we know it today must be understood as a hybrid of Javanese and Dutch ideas and interests, inseparable from a particular colonial moment. In doing so, she contributes to a re–envisioning of European histories that acknowledges the influence of Asian, African, and New World cultures on European thought—and to a rewriting of colonial and postcolonial Javanese histories that questions the boundaries and content of history and story, myth and allegory, colonialism and culture.
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Masks and Selves in Contemporary Java: The Dances of Didik Nini Thowok
This essay reflects on the plays of masks and selves in the dances and the life of Didik Nini Thowok, and the resonances between dance and life. An Indonesian of Chinese descent and a female impersonator whose comic dances combine different regional styles, Didik upsets notions of ethnic and gender stereotypes and identities, the notion of identity itself.
Journal Article
Shadow world of the Javanese
A description of the Javanese art of shadow puppetry is presented. The puppets are cut in profile out of water buffalo hide and represent various symbolic figures out of Javanese folklore.
Magazine Article