David Harnish

Biographic Data

ID145894
NAMEDavid Harnish
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEHarnish
SIGNATUREHARNISH D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS27
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Between Sustainability and the “Classical: Situating the Shadow-Play Wayang Sasak and Cultural Resilience in Lombok, Indonesia

    David HarnishARTICLEAsian Music2026

    This article explores the history, narratives, puppets, music, and practitioners of wayang Sasak , the shadow-play theater of Lombok, Indonesia. Wayang Sasak was once an influential aesthetic tool to popularize Islam, but after reform movements, its position was problematic, and prohibitions were sometimes placed on its performance. Most artists and officials on Lombok assumed that the form could not survive globalization and Islamization. But in…

  • Tolerance of Ambiguity: Negotiating Religion and Sustaining the Lingsar Festival and Its Performing Arts in Lombok, Indonesia

    Open AccessDavid HarnishARTICLEReligions2021References: 9

    Multiple forces vie to control the narratives of the Lingsar festival, a major annual event initiated about 350 years ago that uniquely brings together the indigenous Muslim Sasak and the migrant Hindu Balinese on Lombok, an island east of Bali in Indonesia. This attention to the festival is not surprising because governments, political and religious figures, commercial interests, and tourist industries compete to define and benefit from such eve…

  • Chapter Three. Myths, Actors, and Politics

    David HarnishCHAPTERBridges to the Ancestors2017

  • Women in the Shadows: Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali by Jennifer Goodlander

    David HarnishARTICLEJournal of global south studies2017

    Reviewed by: Women in the Shadows: Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali by Jennifer Goodlander David Harnish Goodlander, Jennifer. Women in the Shadows: Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. This ethnographic work addresses women performing as dalang (puppeteers) in Balinese wayang kulit (shadow play) performances, an activity that disrupts gender norms. The author reveals tha…

  • Between Harmony and Discrimination: Negotiating Religious Identities within Majority-Minority Relationships in Bali and Lombok

    Brigitta Hauser‐schäublin, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin et al.BOOKBetween Harmony and Discrimination2014

    Between Harmony and Discrimination explores the varying expressions of religious practices and the intertwined, shifting interreligious relationships of the peoples of Bali and Lombok. As religion has become a progressively more important identity marker in the 21st century, the shared histories and practices of peoples of both similar and differing faiths are renegotiated, reconfirmed or reconfigured. This renegotiation, inspired by Hindu or Isl…

  • Dance to Your Roots: Genre Fusions in the Music of Indonesia's Krakatau

    David Harnish, Jeremy WallachARTICLEAsian Music2013Cited by: 1

    Artikel ini, berdasarkan wawancara dan interaksi selama 15 tahun dengan anggota Group Band Krakatau-suatu fusi group band jazz/etnik yang unik di Jawa Barat, Indonesia-meneliti karir dan pengembangan musik mereka. Kami menyoroti secara khusus pernyataan-pernyataan tentang falsafah musik dan pendekatan mereka dari pemimpinnya, Dwiki Dharmawan dan pemain bas Pra Budidharma, salah seorang pendiri group band itu. Suatu analisa dari dua buah komposisi…

  • Dangdut Stories: A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's Most Popular Music

    David HarnishARTICLEEthnomusicology2013References: 1

    Book Review| September 01 2013 Dangdut Stories: A Social and Musical History of Indonesia’s Most Popular Music Dangdut Stories: A Social and Musical History of Indonesia’s Most Popular Music. Andrew Weintraub. 2010. New York: Oxford University Press. ix, 258 pp., figures, music examples, endnotes, references, index, website with audio and video examples. David Harnish David Harnish Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnom…

  • Living Art, Sounding Spirit: The Bali Sessions

    David HarnishARTICLEEthnomusicology2012

  • Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia

    Anne K Rasmussen, David Harnish et al.BOOKDivine inspiration2011

    Indonesia is celebrated for its courtly arts, its beautiful beaches, its tourist attractions, and its artisan marketplace. Yet long overdue is a look at Indonesian Islam as the source of and inspiration for the arts throughout the history if its people, and in the dynamic popular performances of today. From the rhythmic grooves of dang dut, the archipelago's tenacious pop music, to the oft-quoted image of the wayang shadow puppet-theater, this bo…

  • Digging" and "Upgrading: Government Efforts to "Develop" Music and Dance in Lombok, Indonesia

    David Harnish, David D HarnishARTICLEAsian Music2007Cited by: 2

    "Digging" and "Upgrading":Government Efforts to "Develop" Music and Dance in Lombok, Indonesia David Harnish (bio) Lombok, one of the two islands that comprise the province of Nusa Tenggara Barat in Indonesia, is considered "rich" (kaya) in performing arts. Yet, like most areas of the country, the provincial government was asked to "dig" or "uncover" (menggali), "establish" (membina) and "develop" (memgembang) music and dance to meet perceived na…

  • Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth, and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival

    David Harnish, David D HarnishBOOKBridges to the Ancestors2005

  • Defining Ethnicity, (Re)Constructing Culture: Processes of Musical Adaptation and Innovation among the Balinese of Lombok1

    David HarnishARTICLEJournal of Musicological Research2005Cited by: 2

    The arrival and negotiation of Balinese music culture on the neighboring island of Lombok has constructed a unique sociomusical identity through processes of preservation, adaptation, and innovation. On Lombok, Balinese music and culture converges and collides with the indigenous majority, the Islamic Sasak. The Hindu Balinese experienced several dramatic shifts in status on the island: from colonizer to colonized to minority in the Indonesian st…

  • Teletubbies in Paradise: Tourism, Indonesianisation and Modernisation in Balinese Music

    Open AccessDavid HarnishARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2005Cited by: 5References: 6

    Among all cultures, perhaps none were more promoted as artistic and natural paradise than Bali. Fusing the mysticism of the East with the physical splendor of the South Seas, this former "isle of bare breasts" received layers of romantic accolades over the last eighty years, not only from the tourist industry but also from such respected figures as Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Walter Spies, Miguel Covarrubias, and Colin McPhee. These scholars …

  • New Lines, Shifting Identities: Interpreting Change at the Lingsar Festival in Lombok, Indonesia

    David HarnishARTICLEEthnomusicology2005Cited by: 4References: 4

    I hardly recognized the event. Over the course of twenty years, I had visited the temple t ns of times and was witnessing its festival for the fourth time. But this one was different: many elements, once presented by officials as stable requirements, had changed. Though I knew that the festival, after over three hundred years, had to adjust to contemporary realities to remain meaningful, I was unprepared for the extent of change and believed that…

  • “A Bridge to Java”Four Decades Teaching Gamelan in America

    Hardja Susilo, David Harnish et al.CHAPTERPerforming EthnomusicologyTeaching…2004

    This chapter gives a striking account of the author's journey, teaching gamelan for four decades in America. It discusses “bimusicality” in gamelan's academic infancy as it had two groups of people, people who liked to talk about gamelan, the ethnomusicology students, and people who liked to play gamelan. People used to memorized their parts, and then put everything together, and that became a Javanese ensemble. It was incredible, but it sounded …

  • Bali South: Gamelan Gong Kebyar and Gamelan Angklung. 2003. Ucla Ethnomusicology Archive Series Vol. 1. Ucla Ethnomusicology Publications 88251 70003 2 8. Recorded by Gertrude Rivers Robinson. Annotat…

    Open AccessDavid HarnishARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2004

    Bali South: Gamelan Gong Kebyar and Gamelan Angklung. 2003. UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive Series Vol. 1. UCLA Ethnomusicology Publications 88251 70003 2 8. Recorded by Gertrude Rivers Robinson. Annotated by Robinson and I Nyoman Wenten. 22 pages of notes in English. 1 colour, 6 B/W photographs. 1 compact disc, 9 tracks (66:34). - Volume 36

  • “Like King and Queen, Like Balinese and Sasak”: Musical Narratives at the Lingsar Temple Festival in Lombok, Indonesia

    David HarnishARTICLEEthnologies2001

    The Lingsar temple pujawali, a primarily religious festival on the island of Lombok in Indonesia, conjoins Hindu Balinese migrants and local Muslim Sasak to worship together for rain and spring water, fertility, bountiful harvests, and cures and boons. This article explores the narrative elements of the presented music at the festival, and posits that performances, which structure and frame the event and its internal rites, are embodied narrative…

  • Gambuh, Balinese Musical Drama

    David Harnish, Le Jardin Des Poiriers et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2001

  • Music of the Gambuh Theater: Bali's Ancient Dance Drama

    David Harnish, Wayne VitaleARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2001

  • Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur

    David Harnish, Michael B BakanARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2000Cited by: 9

  • Lombok, Kalimantan, Banyumas: Little-Known Forms of Gamelan and Wayang

    David Harnish, Philip YampolskyARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2000

  • Be Not Afraid to Strike the Gong: The Music of Lombok

    David Harnish, Christopher BasileARTICLEAsian Music1999

  • Bali: Balinese Music of Lombok

    Lisa Gold, David Harnish et al.ARTICLEAsian Music1999

  • Bali: Balinese Music of Lombok

    Michael Tenzer, David HarnishARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1998

  • Sitar Power II

    Richard K Wolf, Richard Wolf et al.ARTICLEAsian Music1998