Xin Wei THOW

with Gamelan Nyai Rara Saraswati

Concert organised as part of a two day event organised by Institute 13 Ethnomusicology at the KunstUniversität Graz.
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This symposium places the early nineteenth-century Javanese manuscript Sĕrat Cĕnthini in scholarly and performative focus. The manuscript overflows with ethnographic descriptions of music and dance performance, Sufi Islamic religious practice and philosophy, and the myriad sonic and visual minutia of daily life as portrayed through the interpretations and investigations of its travelling protagonists. The events in this symposium provide scholarly, practical, and performative approaches to understanding the text and its meaning in the past and the present.