Henry Spiller

Datos Biográficos

ID146880
NOMBREHenry Spiller
NOMBRESHenry
APELLIDOSpiller
FIRMASPILLER H
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California, Davis
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS21
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR21
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1998
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Beyond the "zaman kaset" (era of the cassette); Interview with Euis Komariah

    Open AccessHenry SpillerARTICLEWacana Journal of the Humanities…2025

    Indonesian music fans all over the world were saddened to learn of the untimely death of Euis Komariah on 11 August 2011, in Bandung, West Java. Ibu Euis earned international fame as an award-winning singer, a teacher, and a businesswoman. I had the opportunity to interview her about her illustrious career on 19 April 2007, during her residency at the University of California, Davis. This essay provides an annotated translation of that interview,…

  • Focus

    Henry Spiller, Elizabeth A ClendinningBOOKFocus2021

    Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia, Third Edition, introduces the emblematic music of Southeast Asia’s largest country, as sound and as cultural phenomenon, highlighting the significant role gamelan music plays in the national culture while teaching of Indonesian values and modern-day life. Despite Indonesia’s great diversity—a melting pot of indigenous, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, British, and modern global influences—a forged na…

  • Antiphonal Histories. Resonant Pasts in the Toba Batak Musical Present, written by Julia Byl

    Open AccessHenry SpillerARTICLEBijdragen tot de taal- land- en…2015

  • Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance

    Henry SpillerARTICLEEthnomusicology2015

    Book Review| September 01 2015 Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance: Cultures of Exclusion Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance: Cultures of Exclusion. Anna Morcom. 2013. London: Hurst & Co. (Oxford University Press). ix, 286 pp., black and white photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $30.00. Henry Spiller Henry Spiller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2015) 59 (3): 494–499. ht…

  • Interdisciplinarity and Musical Exceptionalism

    Henry SpillerARTICLEEthnomusicology2014Referencias: 12

    Expressive culture provides a rich environment for investigating the power dynamics of culture, not just for ethnomusicologists, but for scholars in many fields. In my own work, I try to demonstrate how performances of music and dance in particular both (1) reify and reinforce a perception of immutable values and, at the same time, (2) provide a context for exploring alternatives and changing values. I think ethnomusicologists are in a unique pos…

  • Drumming and Power

    Henry SpillerCHAPTERErotic Triangles2013

    This chapter investigates the interaction between dancing and drumming. It argues that drum sounds have come to represent simultaneously and paradoxically both a cause and an effect of movement. The ambiguity about whether movement makes sounds or sounds animate dancers allows both explanations to be “true.” In large part because of this ambiguity, drumming emerges as a potent metaphor for power in Sundanese performance. Drumming, like Javanese p…

  • The Erotic Triangle of Sundanese Dance

    Henry SpillerCHAPTERErotic Triangles2013

    The erotic triangle of Sundanese dance is not a fixed structure. Rather, it provides a flexible framework not only for affirming ideologies of gender and power through interactive dancing, but for contesting them as well. This chapter begins by looking at the development of a pivotal Sundanese dance genre—tari kursus—through the lens of the erotic triangle to demonstrate how this flexibility operates. A geometric approach clarifies how tari kursu…

  • Gamelan of Java

    Henry SpillerARTICLEEthnomusicology2011Referencias: 2

  • Erotic Triangles

    Henry Spiller, Henry A SpillerBOOKErotic Triangles2010

  • Focus

    Henry Spiller, Henry J SpillerBOOKFocus on Indonesian gamelan music2010

    Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia is an introduction to the familiar music from Southeast Asia's largest country - both as sound and cultural phenomenon. An archipelago of over 17,000 islands, Indonesia is a melting pot of Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, and British influences. Despite this diversity, it has forged a national culture, one in which music plays a significant role. Gamelan music, in particular, teaches us much about Ind…

  • Modern Noise, Fluid Genres

    Open AccessHenry SpillerARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2010

  • Lou Harrison's Music for Western Instruments and Gamelan

    Henry SpillerARTICLEAsian Music2009

    Lou Harrison’s Music for Western Instruments and Gamelan: Even More Western than It Sounds Henry Spiller (bio) “. . . West and East, both in Harrison’s idiosyncratic style, meet in a ravishingly beautiful, unselfconscious and unforced way” —Neil Sorrell (1992) “Through his gamelan works Harrison completed his long-sought goal of uniting East and West” —Leta E. Miller and Fredric Lieberman (1998, 173) “So far I’m the first one, they keep saying, w…

  • Music in Central JavaListening to an Earlier Java

    Henry Spiller, Henry A SpillerARTICLEEthnomusicology2008

    Book Review| January 01 2008 Music in Central JavaListening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music of Wayang in Central Java Music in Central Java, Benjamin Brinner.Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music of Wayang in Central Java, Sarah Weiss. Henry Spiller Henry Spiller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2008) 52 (1): 121–125. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174570 Cite I…

  • Sunandar [Sunarya], Asep

    Henry Spiller, Henry A SpillerCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Hadidjah, Idjah

    Henry Spiller, Henry A SpillerCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Sukri, Uking

    Henry Spiller, Henry A SpillerCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Komariah, Euis

    Henry Spiller, Henry A SpillerCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Tjarmedi [Carmedi], Entjar

    Henry Spiller, Henry A SpillerCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Gamelan Degung, Classical Music of Sunda, West Java

    Henry Spiller, Ernst HeinsARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1999

  • Udan Mas Ensemble Lingkung Seni 'Malati,' with Ida Widawati

    Henry Spiller, Henry A SpillerARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1999

  • Betawi and Sundanese Music of the North Coast of Java

    Henry Spiller, Philip YampolskyARTICLEAsian Music1998