{"product_id":"missionaries-anthropologists-and-music-in-the-indonesian-archipelago-9780520400566","title":"Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago","description":"\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Although the history of Indonesian music has received much attention from ethnomusicologists and Western composers alike, almost nothing has been written on the interaction of missionaries with local culture. This study represents the first attempt to concentrate on the musical dimension of missionary activities in Indonesia. In fourteen essays, a group of distinguished scholars show the complexity of the topic: while some missionaries did important scholarship on local music, making recordings and attempting to use local music in services, others tried to suppress whatever they found. Many were collaborating closely with anthropologists who admitted freely that they could not have done their work without them. And both parties brought colonial biases into their work. By grappling with these realities and records, this book is a collective effort to decolonize the project of making music histories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Maria Busse Berger\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Music emerita at the University of California, Davis and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMedieval Music and the Art of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMensuration and Proportion Signs\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Spiller\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Music emeritus at the University of California, Davis and the author of \u003ci\u003eErotic Triangles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Javaphilia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51201410433298,"sku":"9780520400566","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0ff681f4-bdb8-44e0-b8e3-f8aae1ef2f4b.jpg?v=1744912195","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/missionaries-anthropologists-and-music-in-the-indonesian-archipelago-9780520400566","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}