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Article Excerpt
The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java. By Sean Williams. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. [xii, 276 p. ISBN 0-195-14154-7. $65 (hbk.); ISBN 0-195-14155-5. $35 (pbk.).] Music examples, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, discography, index, compact disc.
The Sound of the Ancestral Ship is about tembang Sunda, a musical genre associated with highland people of aristocratic descent from the Sundanese area of West Java, Indonesia. Formerly known as cianjuran, after Cianjur, the small regency in which it originated, tembang Sunda subsequentiy spread across West Java and is now primarily associated with the regional capital, Bandung. Williams's primary focus is thus on the effects of urbanization on the genre, its practitioners, and audience members.
Tembang Sunda songs are performed by one or more vocalists (usually, but not exclusively, female) accompanied by a small ensemble comprising one bamboo flute (su1ing) and two boat-shaped zithers, kacapi and rincik (the former being larger and lower in pitch than...
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