The world has been struck by multiple natural disasters (earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis), causing great suffering for the common people. Various corrupt officials are taking advantage of the situation, and things are getting worse. Arjuna, the princely hero from the Pandhawa family, has vowed to do something to help. He hears of a gift of inspired leadership the gods are planning to hand down to a worthy mortal-the legendary King Rama's philosophy of leadership from generations past. As the antagonist family of Kurawa brothers also struggles for possession of the god's boon the story unfolds, including numerous secondary plots about characters from the Ramayana (Wibisana, Kumbakarna, Dasamuka) who have yet to have peace in eternity, and are still working out their destiny. Finally, Arjuna meets with an ascetic up in the mountains, and receives the philosophy of inspired leadership which will lead to a more peaceful future.  This book contains the original Javanese transcipts of Purbo Asmoro's three live performances of Makutharamain classical, contemporary-interpretive, and condensed styles.

Makutharama (Wayang Educational Package) (Javanese Edition)

Arts & Photography

Emerson, Kathryn

Asmoro, Purbo

Music

Lontar

<p>A richly illustrated study of wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, based on unprecedented decades-long participatory research.\nWayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, fascinates and endures thanks to the many ways it works as a medium—bearing the weight of Javanese culture and tradition as a key component of rites of passage, as a medium of ritual and spiritual practice, as public spectacle, and as entertainment of the broadest sort, performed live, broadcast, or streamed. Over the past forty years, the form has been subject to a great deal of experimentation and innovation, pulled in many directions within an ever-changing media landscape. In this book, Kathryn Anne Emerson outlines both significant contributions by a number of key figures and the social and political influences propelling such innovations. She also describes deeper and more lasting changes in wayang, based on what the art form's most accomplished practitioners have to say about it. At the core of the book is one pivotal figure, Purbo Asmoro of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Surakarta, who, Emerson argues, has taken the individual and singular innovations of the era and integrated them into a new system of performance practice, one that has shaped the key Surakarta school of performance. Grounded in an unprecedented, decades-long participatory research project involving hundreds of interlocutors, the book is beautifully illustrated and will be of considerable interest in Indonesian studies.</p>

Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the Evolution of an Indonesian Performing Art

Performing Arts

National University of Singapore Press

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