Dialect, Diffusion, and Balinese Drumming
Using Sociolinguistic Models for the Analysis of Regional Variation in Kendang Arja
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7768804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie Tilley (0000-0002-4784-0272, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 481-505 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnomusicology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1836 • E-ISSN: 2156-7417 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/ethnomusicology.58.3.0481 |
| OpenAlex | W3140792840 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
In the early twentieth century, the Balinese village of Singapadu became famous for its distinctive tradition of arja, a sung dance-drama accompanied by paired, improvised, interlocking drumming: kendang arja. At that time, Singapadu arja drum patterns were transmitted to drummers throughout Bali. While some maintained the original patterns without alteration, others varied them or even innovated new ones within the idiom. In this article, I use concepts and terminology borrowed from linguistics—issues of language contact, proficiency, and ideologies of change—to determine the reasons behind these varying levels of innovation among drum masters trained in the Singapadu style
Archaeology · Art · Dance · Drama · Drum · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Style (visual arts) · Terminology · Variation (astronomy) · Gender Studies in Language · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |