Rene T A Lysloff
Biographic Data
| ID | 83415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rene T A Lysloff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rene T A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lysloff |
| SIGNATURE | LYSLOFF R T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ethnomusicology
Scholars and travelers have been interested in the music of other cultures and regions of the world for several centuries but only since the twentieth century has such inquiry cohered into an identifiable disciplinary field of study. Ethnomusicology is a relatively new field; the term first began to be widely used in Europe and the United States with the founding of the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1954. From its earliest iteration, “ethnomusic…
Playing Along
Book Review| February 01 2016 Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance. Kiri Miller. 2012. New York: Oxford University Press. xiv, 258 pp., figures, black and white photos and images, diagrams, references, companion website, index. Cloth, $105.00; paper, $29.95. René T. A. Lysloff René T. A. Lysloff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethno…
Worlding Music in Jogjakarta
Narratives of globalization are often about coping with inevitable and massive economic, technocultural, and societal change. Similarly, studies of music and globalization tend to be theoretically oriented and focus on large-scale transformation (media, industry, nation, etc.) rather than on local and individual innovation and ingenuity. This essay is a close to the ground ethnography of musicians (two, in particular) from the city of Jogjakarta1…
Opera Jawa
Indonésie, Java Centre. Gamelan de Solo
Book Review| February 01 2014 Indonésie, Java Centre. Gamelan de Solo: Le jeu des sentiments/Indonesia, Central Java. Solonese Gamelan: A Garland of Moods Indonésie, Java Centre. Gamelan de Solo: Le jeu des sentiments/Indonesia, Central Java. Solonese Gamelan: A Garland of Moods. 2006. Recordings and commentary by Marc Benamou with Rahayu Supanggah. Four compact discs. Booklet (60 pp.) in English and French Inédit: Maison des Cultures du Monde (C…
Musical Community on the Internet
Rural Javanese "Tradition" and Erotic Subversion
A partir d'une recherche de terrain realisee en 1994 dans la region de Banyumas (centre-ouest de Java) sur la tradition musicale et de danse lengger, l'A. decrit la confrontation entre des pratiques rurales ancestrales et les conceptions indonesiennes modernes de la tradition dans le cadre de la politique culturelle du Nouvel Ordre (Orde Baru). Il analyse ensuite le contexte dans lequel cette pratique traditionnelle a ete, ces dernieres decennies…
Mozart in Mirrorshades
René T. A. Lysloff, Mozart in Mirrorshades: Ethnomusicology, Technology, and the Politics of Representation, Ethnomusicology, Vol. 41, No. 2, Special Issue: Issues in Ethnomusicology (Spring - Summer, 1997), pp. 206-219
Traditions of Gamelan Music in Java
A Wrinkle in Time
This article is about a wrinkle in time, what the writer Madeleine L'Engle whimsically calls a tesseract, when the space-time continuum seems to fold up on itself, bringing together alternate times and places. Specifically, it is about a wrinkle in the flow of dramatic time during performance of Javanese shadow puppet theatre, or wayang kulit. This wrinkle brings about a peculiarly sustained moment of timelessness squarely in the middle of an all…
Wayang Beber
The Sultan's Pleasure
Instruments and the Electronic Age
Threshold to the Sacred
A Java, avant chaque representation de theâtre d'ombres (« wayang kulit ») une ouverture musicale (« talu ») composee de 7 parties et exprimant le cycle de vie est interpretee afin de faire entrer progressivement le public dans un univers surnaturel. Il en va de meme dans le repertoire rituel thai hindou-bouddhiste avec l'interpretation de l'« homrong » comprenant 12 a 20 pieces dont la premiere ( « phithi wai khru ») est celle jouee par des etud…
Non-Puppets and Non-Gamelan
T hough I didn't realize it at the time, the piece I'm My Own Walkman, had a special significance for me while I was conducting fieldwork in Java in 1986-87. I had a cassette-recording of Bobby McFerrin (an album called The Voice) back then, and I used to listen to it through a set of headphones late at night as it played on my Sony Walkman.3 Aside from being an example of incredible vocal technique and versatility, the piece struck me as rather …
Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft
A New Approach to the Classification of Sound-Producing Instruments
The systematic classification of musical instruments requires a fresh approach. Most existing systems classify museum artifacts, employing a rigid set of distinctions inappropriate for systematic integration of worldwide instrumentalia and human behavior included in producing sound. Central to our approach is a reconsideration of the object to be classified. The domain of our classification includes the dynamic interaction between instruments and…
Musical Community on the Internet
Mozart in Mirrorshades
René T. A. Lysloff, Mozart in Mirrorshades: Ethnomusicology, Technology, and the Politics of Representation, Ethnomusicology, Vol. 41, No. 2, Special Issue: Issues in Ethnomusicology (Spring - Summer, 1997), pp. 206-219
Worlding Music in Jogjakarta
Narratives of globalization are often about coping with inevitable and massive economic, technocultural, and societal change. Similarly, studies of music and globalization tend to be theoretically oriented and focus on large-scale transformation (media, industry, nation, etc.) rather than on local and individual innovation and ingenuity. This essay is a close to the ground ethnography of musicians (two, in particular) from the city of Jogjakarta1…
Threshold to the Sacred
A Java, avant chaque representation de theâtre d'ombres (« wayang kulit ») une ouverture musicale (« talu ») composee de 7 parties et exprimant le cycle de vie est interpretee afin de faire entrer progressivement le public dans un univers surnaturel. Il en va de meme dans le repertoire rituel thai hindou-bouddhiste avec l'interpretation de l'« homrong » comprenant 12 a 20 pieces dont la premiere ( « phithi wai khru ») est celle jouee par des etud…
A New Approach to the Classification of Sound-Producing Instruments
The systematic classification of musical instruments requires a fresh approach. Most existing systems classify museum artifacts, employing a rigid set of distinctions inappropriate for systematic integration of worldwide instrumentalia and human behavior included in producing sound. Central to our approach is a reconsideration of the object to be classified. The domain of our classification includes the dynamic interaction between instruments and…
Rural Javanese "Tradition" and Erotic Subversion
A partir d'une recherche de terrain realisee en 1994 dans la region de Banyumas (centre-ouest de Java) sur la tradition musicale et de danse lengger, l'A. decrit la confrontation entre des pratiques rurales ancestrales et les conceptions indonesiennes modernes de la tradition dans le cadre de la politique culturelle du Nouvel Ordre (Orde Baru). Il analyse ensuite le contexte dans lequel cette pratique traditionnelle a ete, ces dernieres decennies…
Wayang Beber
A New Approach to the Classification of Sound-Producing Instruments
The systematic classification of musical instruments requires a fresh approach. Most existing systems classify museum artifacts, employing a rigid set of distinctions inappropriate for systematic integration of worldwide instrumentalia and human behavior included in producing sound. Central to our approach is a reconsideration of the object to be classified. The domain of our classification includes the dynamic interaction between instruments and…
Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft
Non-Puppets and Non-Gamelan
T hough I didn't realize it at the time, the piece I'm My Own Walkman, had a special significance for me while I was conducting fieldwork in Java in 1986-87. I had a cassette-recording of Bobby McFerrin (an album called The Voice) back then, and I used to listen to it through a set of headphones late at night as it played on my Sony Walkman.3 Aside from being an example of incredible vocal technique and versatility, the piece struck me as rather …
Instruments and the Electronic Age
Threshold to the Sacred
A Java, avant chaque representation de theâtre d'ombres (« wayang kulit ») une ouverture musicale (« talu ») composee de 7 parties et exprimant le cycle de vie est interpretee afin de faire entrer progressivement le public dans un univers surnaturel. Il en va de meme dans le repertoire rituel thai hindou-bouddhiste avec l'interpretation de l'« homrong » comprenant 12 a 20 pieces dont la premiere ( « phithi wai khru ») est celle jouee par des etud…
Wayang Beber
The Sultan's Pleasure
A Wrinkle in Time
This article is about a wrinkle in time, what the writer Madeleine L'Engle whimsically calls a tesseract, when the space-time continuum seems to fold up on itself, bringing together alternate times and places. Specifically, it is about a wrinkle in the flow of dramatic time during performance of Javanese shadow puppet theatre, or wayang kulit. This wrinkle brings about a peculiarly sustained moment of timelessness squarely in the middle of an all…
Traditions of Gamelan Music in Java
Mozart in Mirrorshades
René T. A. Lysloff, Mozart in Mirrorshades: Ethnomusicology, Technology, and the Politics of Representation, Ethnomusicology, Vol. 41, No. 2, Special Issue: Issues in Ethnomusicology (Spring - Summer, 1997), pp. 206-219
Rural Javanese "Tradition" and Erotic Subversion
A partir d'une recherche de terrain realisee en 1994 dans la region de Banyumas (centre-ouest de Java) sur la tradition musicale et de danse lengger, l'A. decrit la confrontation entre des pratiques rurales ancestrales et les conceptions indonesiennes modernes de la tradition dans le cadre de la politique culturelle du Nouvel Ordre (Orde Baru). Il analyse ensuite le contexte dans lequel cette pratique traditionnelle a ete, ces dernieres decennies…
Musical Community on the Internet
Indonésie, Java Centre. Gamelan de Solo
Book Review| February 01 2014 Indonésie, Java Centre. Gamelan de Solo: Le jeu des sentiments/Indonesia, Central Java. Solonese Gamelan: A Garland of Moods Indonésie, Java Centre. Gamelan de Solo: Le jeu des sentiments/Indonesia, Central Java. Solonese Gamelan: A Garland of Moods. 2006. Recordings and commentary by Marc Benamou with Rahayu Supanggah. Four compact discs. Booklet (60 pp.) in English and French Inédit: Maison des Cultures du Monde (C…
Opera Jawa
Playing Along
Book Review| February 01 2016 Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance. Kiri Miller. 2012. New York: Oxford University Press. xiv, 258 pp., figures, black and white photos and images, diagrams, references, companion website, index. Cloth, $105.00; paper, $29.95. René T. A. Lysloff René T. A. Lysloff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethno…
Worlding Music in Jogjakarta
Narratives of globalization are often about coping with inevitable and massive economic, technocultural, and societal change. Similarly, studies of music and globalization tend to be theoretically oriented and focus on large-scale transformation (media, industry, nation, etc.) rather than on local and individual innovation and ingenuity. This essay is a close to the ground ethnography of musicians (two, in particular) from the city of Jogjakarta1…
Ethnomusicology
Scholars and travelers have been interested in the music of other cultures and regions of the world for several centuries but only since the twentieth century has such inquiry cohered into an identifiable disciplinary field of study. Ethnomusicology is a relatively new field; the term first began to be widely used in Europe and the United States with the founding of the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1954. From its earliest iteration, “ethnomusic…
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