Performing Arts and the Royal Courts of Southeast Asia, Volume Two

Mayco A. Santaella is Professor at the Department of Film and Performing Arts and Dean for the School of Arts at Sunway University. He is the co-editor of Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2021) and editor of Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (under)Currents and Currencies (Sunway University Press, 2022).

• ContentsPrefaceList of FiguresAbbreviations and AcronymsContributors1 Manipulating Notions of Southeast Asian Royal Court Performance: Romanticising, Appropriating, Deconstructing, Inventing and ImaginingRicardo D. Trimillos2 ‘A Name Is All That Remains’: Twenty-first-century Traces of Sundanese Royal Courts in Modern Sundanese Performing ArtsHenry Spiller3 Performing Arts as a Cultural Bridge between Hindu Rulers and Muslim Communities in BaliAko Mashino4 Martial Arts and the Malays of Singapore: from Court Traditions to Contemporary Identity SignifiersMohamed Effendy Abdul Hamid5 The Royal Abduction of Napsa and the Hostaging of Dance: a Discursive Exploration of Why Igal Is Pangalay in the Sulu ArchipelagoM.C.M. Santamaria6 The Fewer the Better: Exclusivity in Royal Thai Court MusicSupeena Insee Adler7 For Soul or for Sale? Javanese Court Dance at a CrossroadsSal Murgiyanto and A.M. Hermien Kusmayati8 Thai Court Performance as Object, Event and AffectDeborah Wong9 Reciprocity and Allegiance of Enduring Intra-kingdom Relationships in Balinese Performing ArtsMade Mantle Hood10 Honouring the Maradika: from Kaili Kingdoms to a Decentralised Neo-royal Provincial GovernmentMayco A. Santaella11 Traditional Performing Arts in the North Coast of Java: Centre–Periphery, Court–Rural DynamicsSumarsam12 Rei(g)ning in a New World: Performing Javanese Kingship to Diverse Contemporary Audiences in Yogyakarta, IndonesiaRoger Vetter13 Discourses of Style and Value in the Performing Arts of the Javanese CourtsR. Anderson SuttonGlossary of Non-English TermsIndex