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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.
Edited by:
Anna Maria Busse Berger,
Henry Spiller
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780520400566
ISBN 10: 0520400569
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 18 March 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller PART I. EARLY MODERN MUSIC HISTORY IN INDONESIA 1. Iberian Sources for the Historiography of Musics in the Early Modern Moluccas (Maluku) David R. M. Irving 2. A European Music Treatise Published in Late Eighteenth-Century Batavia (Jakarta) Estelle Joubert and David R. M. Irving PART II. MISSIONARIES AND LOCAL MUSIC IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 3. “I am in no way surprised that the Javanese can listen to it all night long”: A Nineteenth-Century Dutch Missionary on Javanese Music Henry Spiller 4. The Issue of the Javanese Church Songs Bernard Arps PART III. LOCAL CHURCH MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 5. The Heathen in His Blindness? Missionaries, Empire, and Anti-colonialism David A. Hollinger 6. “Sing, Choirs of New Jerusalem”: Hymnody and Sincerity in the Christian Tobalands Julia Byl 7. A Missional Legacy: Musik Inkulturasi and Printing Localized Catholic Hymnals in Indonesia Emilie Rook 8. Gaya X: An Ethnomusicological Look at Lagu Inkulturasi Philip Yampolsky PART IV. MISSIONARIES AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS 9. Reconsidering the Place of Missionaries in Ethnomusicological History: Jaap Kunst and the Fathers of the Divine Word in Flores Dustin Wiebe 10. Jaap Kunst and the German Missionaries in Nias Anna Maria Busse Berger PART V. TECHNOLOGIES OF INDOCTRINATION 11. History and Mythology in Javanese Performing Arts Sumarsam 12. Dakwah, Missionizing, and Wayang: Hindu, Islamic, Christian, Buddhist Kathy Foley PART VI. TECHNOLOGIES OF PRESERVATION: ARCHIVES 13. Has “God” Made the Apparatus? Missionaries as Phonographic Mediators in New Guinea and Melanesia Sebastian Klotz 14. Epistemic Shifts and Ideological Persistence: Ethnographic, Archival, and Historiographical Practices in the Legacy of Jaap Kunst Barbara Titus Bibliography Contributors Index
Anna Maria Busse Berger is Distinguished Professor of Music emerita at the University of California, Davis and the author of The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, Medieval Music and the Art of Memory, and Mensuration and Proportion Signs. Henry Spiller is Professor of Music emeritus at the University of California, Davis and the author of Erotic Triangles, Javaphilia, Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java, and Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia.
