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Article: Classical Javanese Dance: The Surakarta Tradition and its Terminology.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- April 1, 2000
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Classical Javanese Dance: The Surakarta Tradition and its Terminology. By CLARA BRAKEL-PAPENHUYZEN. Leiden: KITLV PRESS, 1995. Pp. vii-xii + 252 and plates. HFl 60.
Upon first witnessing an instance of the spectacle denoted by the title of this book, Rabindranath Tagore was famously prompted to remark that it is in the Indonesian Archipelago that India's genius lives and has its being. True enough, as a statement of delighted recognition; but deserving, nonetheless, of qualification. The origins of the phenomenon are sub-continental, to be sure, but its character is sui generis and its many graces are idiosyncratically, unmistakably, Southeast Asian. As does no ...