Sustaining performance habitats for balinese animal effigies in the anthropocene
Performance contexts for the barong, a mythical animal effigy that symbolizes a Balinese Hindu community's protective spirit, include mock-purification rituals, professional music and dance competitions, and a revival of children's busking barong as street entertainment. In each context, a...
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| description | Performance contexts for the barong, a mythical animal effigy that symbolizes a Balinese Hindu community's protective spirit, include mock-purification rituals, professional music and dance competitions, and a revival of children's busking barong as street entertainment. In each context, anthropomorphized mythical animals such as boars, tigers, and elephants perform meanings and beliefs that exist along a continuum from revered deity to superficial symbol. In this essay, I draw upon discourses surrounding music ecology and environmental sustainability which serve as background for citing correlations between the physical destruction of Bali's natural environment and urbanization's influence on the mythical animal's traditional performance habitat. |
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| spelling | upm-464432018-02-27T07:09:39Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/46443/ Sustaining performance habitats for balinese animal effigies in the anthropocene Hood, Made Mantle Performance contexts for the barong, a mythical animal effigy that symbolizes a Balinese Hindu community's protective spirit, include mock-purification rituals, professional music and dance competitions, and a revival of children's busking barong as street entertainment. In each context, anthropomorphized mythical animals such as boars, tigers, and elephants perform meanings and beliefs that exist along a continuum from revered deity to superficial symbol. In this essay, I draw upon discourses surrounding music ecology and environmental sustainability which serve as background for citing correlations between the physical destruction of Bali's natural environment and urbanization's influence on the mythical animal's traditional performance habitat. University of Malaya 2015 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/46443/1/Sustaining%20performance%20habitats%20for%20balinese%20animal%20effigies%20in%20the%20anthropocene.pdf Hood, Made Mantle (2015) Sustaining performance habitats for balinese animal effigies in the anthropocene. Malaysian Journal of Performing and Visual Arts, 1. pp. 1-9. ISSN 2462-1900; ESSN: 2462-1919 https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/MJPVA/article/view/2040 |
| spellingShingle | Hood, Made Mantle Sustaining performance habitats for balinese animal effigies in the anthropocene |
| title | Sustaining performance habitats for balinese animal effigies in the anthropocene |
| title_full | Sustaining performance habitats for balinese animal effigies in the anthropocene |
| title_fullStr | Sustaining performance habitats for balinese animal effigies in the anthropocene |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustaining performance habitats for balinese animal effigies in the anthropocene |
| title_short | Sustaining performance habitats for balinese animal effigies in the anthropocene |
| title_sort | sustaining performance habitats for balinese animal effigies in the anthropocene |
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