Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago

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Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago is written by Anna Maria Busse Berger and published by Univ of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520400577 (ISBN 10) and 9780520400573 (ISBN 13).

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Although the history of Indonesian music has received much attention from ethnomusicologists and Western composers alike, almost nothing has been written on the interaction of missionaries with local culture. This study represents the first attempt to concentrate on the musical dimension of missionary activities in Indonesia. In fourteen essays, a group of distinguished scholars show the complexity of the topic: while some missionaries did important scholarship on local music, making recordings and attempting to use local music in services, others tried to suppress whatever they found. Many were collaborating closely with anthropologists who admitted freely that they could not have done their work without them. And both parties brought colonial biases into their work. By grappling with these realities and records, this book is a collective effort to decolonize the project of making music histories.