The Shadow Puppet Theatre of Malaysia

The Shadow Puppet Theatre of Malaysia
Title The Shadow Puppet Theatre of Malaysia PDF eBook
Author Beth Osnes
Publisher McFarland
Pages 205
Release 2014-01-10
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0786457929

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This comprehensive book explores the Malaysian form of shadow puppet theatre, highlighting its unique nature within the context of Southeast Asian and Asian shadow puppet theatre traditions. Intended for a Western audience not familiar with Asian performance and practices, the text serves as a bridge to this highly imaginative form. An in-depth examination of the Malaysian puppet tradition is provided, as well as performance scripts, designs for puppet characters, instructions for creating a shadow screen, and easy directions for performance. Another section then considers the practical, pedagogical, and ethical issues that arise in the teaching of this art.

The Malay Shadow Play

The Malay Shadow Play
Title The Malay Shadow Play PDF eBook
Author Ghulam Sarwar Yousof
Publisher
Pages 92
Release 1997
Genre Puppets
ISBN

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Shadow Play

Shadow Play
Title Shadow Play PDF eBook
Author Rahimidin Zahari
Publisher ITBM
Pages 124
Release 2013
Genre Puppet theater
ISBN 9674300023

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Malaysian Shadow Play and Music

Malaysian Shadow Play and Music
Title Malaysian Shadow Play and Music PDF eBook
Author Patricia Ann Matusky
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 196
Release 1993
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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The ancient, time-honoured art form known as wayang kulit (literally, 'leather puppet theatre' or 'shadow puppet play') is found in many parts of South-East Asia, including the Malay Peninsula. The present book, an ethnomusicological study focusing on the musical sound and its role in the drama, explores an aspect of wayang kulit hitherto neglected by scholars. Based on interviews and recordings conducted by the author in the villages of Kelantan, as well as on her experience as a student performer in one of the finest and most skilled wayang kulit troupes in Malaysia, the book begins with a useful overview of the various types of wayang kulit in Malaysia. It then goes on to discuss the main theatrical conventions, puppet design, performance structure, musical repertoire, orchestral instruments, and characteristic features of the music of wayang kulit Siam, the most popular type of Malaysian shadow puppet theatre. Written in a pleasing, easily digestible style, this book will be of value to ethnomusicologists, sociologists, students and practitioners of the performing arts, theatre enthusiasts, and general readers interested in the arts and culture of South-East Asia.

Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature

Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature
Title Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature PDF eBook
Author Ding Choo Ming
Publisher ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Pages 239
Release 2018-03-15
Genre History
ISBN 9814786578

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Local renderings of the two Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature have existed since around the ninth and tenth centuries. In the following centuries new versions were created alongside the old ones, and these opened up interesting new directions. They questioned the views of previous versions and laid different accents, in a continuous process of modernization and adaptation, successfully satisfying the curiosity of their audiences for more than a thousand years. Much of this history is still unclear. For a long time, scholarly research made little progress, due to its preoccupation with problems of origin. The present volume, going beyond identifying sources, analyses the socio-literary contexts and ideological foundations of seemingly similar contents and concepts in different periods; it examines the literary functions of borrowing and intertextual referencing, and calls upon the visual arts to illustrate the independent character of the epic tradition in Southeast Asia.

Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind: The Javanese Shadow-play Dewa Ruci Performed by Ki Anom Soeroto

Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind: The Javanese Shadow-play Dewa Ruci Performed by Ki Anom Soeroto
Title Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind: The Javanese Shadow-play Dewa Ruci Performed by Ki Anom Soeroto PDF eBook
Author Bernard Arps
Publisher NUS Press
Pages 646
Release 2016-04-18
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9814722154

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Javanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with important contemporary resonance in fields like religion and politics. How to make sense of the shadow-play as a form of world-making? In Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind, Bernard Arps explores this question by considering an all-night performance of Dewa Ruci, a key play in the repertoire. Thrilling and profound, Dewa Ruci describes the mighty Bratasena’s quest for the ultimate mystical insight. The book presents Dewa Ruci as rendered by the distinguished master puppeteer Ki Anom Soeroto in Amsterdam in 1987. The book’s unusual design presents the performance texts together with descriptions of the sounds and images that would remain obscure in conventional formats of presentation. Copious annotations probe beneath the surface and provide an understanding of the performance's cultural complexity. These annotations explain the meanings of puppet action, music, and shifts in language; how the puppeteer wove together into the drama the circumstances of the performance in Amsterdam, Islamic and other religious ideas, and references to contemporary Indonesian political ideology. Also revealed is the performance’s historical multilayering and the picture it paints of the Javanese past. Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind not only presents an unrivalled insight into the artistic depth of wayang kulit, it exemplifies a new field of study, the philology of performance.

Malay Literature of the 19th Century

Malay Literature of the 19th Century
Title Malay Literature of the 19th Century PDF eBook
Author Siti Hawa Hj. Salleh
Publisher ITBM
Pages 398
Release 2010
Genre Malay literature
ISBN 9830685179

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