Erotic triangles : Sundanese dance and masculinity in West Java / Henry Spiller.

In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there, be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to the rhythm at village ceremonies, weddings, politi...

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Main Author: Spiller, Henry
Other title:Sundanese dance and masculinity in West Java.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Series:Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Discourses of Sundanese dance
  • Drumming and power
  • Ronggeng and desire
  • Dance events and freedom
  • The erotic triangle of Sundanese dance
  • Triangulating Sundanese dance.