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Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land En Volkenkunde Recollecting Resonances Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde Edited by Rosemarijn Hoefte KITLV, Leiden Henk Schulte Nordholt KITLV, Leiden Editorial Board Michael Laffan Princeton University Adrian Vickers Sydney University Anna Tsing University of California Santa Cruz VOLUME 288 Southeast Asia Mediated Edited by Bart Barendregt (KITLV) Ariel Heryanto (Australian National University) VOLUME 4 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/vki Recollecting Resonances Indonesian–Dutch Musical Encounters Edited by Bart Barendregt and Els Bogaerts LEIDEN • BOSTON 2014 This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐Noncommercial 3.0 Unported (CC‐BY‐NC 3.0) License, which permits any non‐commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. The realization of this publication was made possible by the support of KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) Cover illustration: The photo on the cover is taken around 1915 and depicts a Eurasian man seated in a Batavian living room while plucking the strings of his instrument (courtesy of KITLV Collec- tions, image 13352). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Recollecting resonances : Indonesian-Dutch musical encounters / edited by Bart Barendregt and Els Bogaerts. pages cm. — (Verhandelingen van het koninklijk instituut voor taal-, land en volkenkunde ; 288) (Southeast Asia mediated ; 4) Includes index. ISBN 978-90-04-25609-5 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-25859-4 (e-book) 1. Music— Indonesia—Dutch influences. 2. Music—Indonesia—History and criticism. 3. Music— Netherlands—Indonesian influences. 4. Moluccans—Netherlands—Music—History and criticism. 5. Indonesians—Suriname—Music—History and criticism. I. Barendregt, Bart A., 1968– II. Bogaerts, Els. ML345.I5R43 2013 780.9598’09492—dc23 2013029432 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 1572-1892 ISBN 978-90-04-25609-5 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-25859-4 (e-book) Copyright 2014 by the Editors and the Authors Koninklijke Brill NV reserves the right to protect the publication against unauthorized use and to authorize dissemination by means of offprints, legitimate photocopies, microform editions, reprints, translations, and secondary information sources, such as abstracting and indexing services including databases. Requests for commercial re‐use, use of parts of the publication, and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill NV. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book is printed on acid-free paper. In loving memory, Hans Teeuw (12 August 1921–18 May 2012) Multifaceted scholar Specialist in Old Javanese, classical Malay and modern Indonesian literature Lexicographer Translator Mentor Fostering mutual cooperation among Indonesian and Dutch scholars CONTENTS List of Illustrations .......................................................................................... ix 1. Recollecting Resonances: Listening to an Indonesian–Dutch Musical Heritage ....................................................................................... 1 Bart Barendregt and Els Bogaerts 2. Photographic Representations of the Performing Indonesian ... 31 Liesbeth Ouwehand 3. ‘Queen Wilhelmina, Mother of the Mentawaians’: The Dutch National Anthem in Indonesia and as Part of the Music Culture of Siberut ............................................................ 61 Gerard A. Persoon 4. Past and Present Issues of Javanese–European Musical Hybridity: Gendhing Mares and Other Hybrid Genres .................. 87 Sumarsam 5. Drummers of the Sultan of Buton: The Lasting Influence of the Dutch East India Company on Local Music Traditions ... 109 Miriam L. Brenner 6. Musical Modernism in the Twentieth Century ............................... 129 R. Franki S. Notosudirdjo 7. Constant van de Wall, a European–Javanese Composer .............. 151 Henk Mak van Dijk 8. A Musical Friendship: The Correspondence between Mangkunegoro VII and the Ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst, 1919 to 1940 .................................................................................................. 179 Madelon Djajadiningrat and Clara Brinkgreve 9. Encounters in the Context of Inspiring Sundanese Music and Problematic Theories ......................................................... 203 Wim van Zanten viii contents 10. Indonesian Performing Arts in the Netherlands, 1913–1944 ....... 231 Matthew Isaac Cohen 11. ‘Barat Ketemu Timur’: Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Making of Early Kroncong History ..................................................... 259 Lutgard Mutsaers 12. Tradition and Creative Inspiration: Musical Encounters of the Moluccan Communities in the Netherlands ...................... 281 Rein Spoorman 13. Multicultural Encounters on Stage: The Use of Javanese Cultural Elements by the Surinamese Doe-Theatre Company ... 297 Annika Ockhorst 14. Kollektief Muziek Theater’s Repositioning of Moluccan Issues ....................................................................................... 319 Fridus Steijlen Contributors ..................................................................................................... 339 Index ................................................................................................................... 345 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 2.1 The gamelan salendro in the kraton (plate IX) (KITLV 11569) ........................................................................................ 36 2.2 Serimpi’s dancing the story of Adaninggar (plate VIII) (KITLV 11568) ........................................................................................ 36 2.3 Man playing the kledi (mouth organ) (KITLV 25720) .............. 39 2.4 Kayan women dressed as men dancing during a sowing feast (KITLV 25674) ............................................................................ 40 2.5 Man performing a weapon dance accompanied by a kledi player (source: Nieuwenhuis 1907, opposite page 132) ............ 42 2.6 Young Kayan woman playing a stringed shield while reciting stories (KITLV 25661) ......................................................... 43 2.7 Kledi player in front of a pot in which rice is cooked (KITLV 25799) ...................................................................................... 44 2.8 Man is being shaved, while a man and a woman are playing the flute and the mouth harp (on the left) (source: Nieuwenhuis 1907, opposite page 146b) ...................... 44 2.9 Musical instruments from the Bahau region (source: Quer durch Borneo 1907, opposite page 145) ............. 45 2.10 Man and woman playing the rebab and gambang in Java (KITLV 32145) .............................................................................. 47 2.11 Dancer posing with a small orchestra in Java (KITLV 32147) ....................................................................................... 48 2.12 Balinese gandrung at the pasar malam in Surabaya (KITLV 10834) ....................................................................................... 51 2.13 Studio portrait of a wayang topeng player (KITLV 10857) ....................................................................................... 53 2.14 Studio portrait of two wayang topeng player (KITLV 10859) ....................................................................................... 54 2.15 Studio portrait of Balinese gandrung dancers (KITLV 10858) ....................................................................................... 55 2.16 Kuda kepang performance at the pasar malam with the audience on the left (KITLV 10840) ....................................... 56 2.17 Madurese dancers at the pasar malam (KITLV 10833) ............ 57 3.1 Asak performing a ritual after construction work at his house (photo by author, 1981) ......................................................... 64 x list of illustrations 3.2 Group of Mentawaians around 1910. The man in the front is wearing his official outfit after having been installed as village head (source: picture collection Mrs. Ruinen) ............. 68 3.3 A page of the account written by missionary Lett on the visit of Governor Heekler to Sikakap 1909 .................................. 70 5.1 Drummers of the Sultan of Boeton by Walter Kaudern (1927) ..................................................................................... 114 5.2 Alifirisi by Van den Berg (1937) ...................................................... 117 5.3 Loetoenani by Van de Berg (1937) ................................................. 117 5.4 Alifirisi in Bau Bau Kraton (photo by author, March 2007) .......................................................................................... 122 5.5 Old tamburu drum just outside of the Kraton (photo by author, March 2007) ....................................................... 123 5.6 Membrane of old tamburu drum in image 6 (photo by author, March 2007) ....................................................... 123 5.7 New tamburu with factory made membranes and snare (photo by author, March 2007) ......................................................
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