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Article Excerpt
The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It. By Margaret J. Kartomi. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2001. [xxi, 123 p. ISBN 1-58046-088-7. $75.] Illustrations, bibliography, index, compact disc.
The Gamelan Digul is the latest publication of prolific ethnomusicologist Margaret J. Kartomi, professor of music at Australia's Monash University. In six chapters, Kartorni tells the extraordinary true story of a Central Javanese court musician named Pontjopangrawit (1893-1965?), whose anti-colonial beliefs led to his internment at a New Guinea prison camp from 1927 to 1932. During the five years of his internment, Pontjopangrawit created a unique gamelan ensemble of found objects that sustained him and his fellow Javanese prisoners through performances, rehearsals, and the development of new compositions. Pontjopangrawit himself returned...
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