Article: Indonesia: Wayang Golek: The Sound And Celebration Of Sundanese Puppet Theater.(Asep Sunandar Sunarya and Giri Harja III) (sound recording review)

ASEP SUNANDAR SUNARYA AND GIRI HARJA III Indonesia: Wayang Golek: The Sound And Celebration Of Sundanese Puppet Theater Multicultural Media 3019

Hats off to Multicultural Media for its 6-CD presentation of the Sundanese puppet theater of West Java, Indonesia, the popular performance art called wayang golek. The set presents an entire telling of one tale, accompanied by gamelan, metal-keyed instruments, drums, flute, fiddle, xylophone and vocals. The puppet theater stories present life-cycle events and other social occasions drawn from the lives of the Sundanese people by relating stories from the Hindu epics Mahahharata and Ramayana in the national language. ...

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