This book examines the ways in which the urban aristocratic Sudanese of West Java recall the rural past of their ancestors through performances of the tembang Sunda ensemble (voice, zithers, and bamboo flute). This is the first book on Indonesian music that focuses on a non-gamelan ensemble. This also is the first book to highlight Sudanese cosmological and cultural practices through an examination of musical performance. It reveals some of the musical tensions and points of connection between men and women, rural people and urbanites, and the upper, middle, middle, and lower classes, illustrated with photographs and brief musical examples, this book also includes a CD.
