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"""Widely recognized as the expert on the music of Sumatra, Margaret Kartomi provides a wealth of information on the music of various regions of the huge and culturally diverse island of Sumatra in Indonesia. No other book comes close to the treasure trove of descriptive data and detail here."" R. Anderson Sutton, author of Traditions of Gamelan Music in Java: Musical Pluralism and Regional Identity ""This volume presents a lifetime of writings by a distinguished scholar on the musical arts of Sumatra. Readers get a comprehensive glimpse of the myriad music and dance styles, ritual and religious life, cultural politics, and ecological and gender issues that permeate throughout the island."" David D. Harnish, author of Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth, and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival"

Widely recognized as the expert on the music of Sumatra, Margaret Kartomi provides a wealth of information on the music of various regions of the huge and culturally diverse island of Sumatra in Indonesia. No other book comes close to the treasure trove of descriptive data and detail here. R. Anderson Sutton, author of Traditions of Gamelan Music in Java: Musical Pluralism and Regional Identity This volume presents a lifetime of writings by a distinguished scholar on the musical arts of Sumatra. Readers get a comprehensive glimpse of the myriad music and dance styles, ritual and religious life, cultural politics, and ecological and gender issues that permeate throughout the island. David D. Harnish, author of Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth, and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival

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Margaret Kartomi, a professor of music at Monash University in Australia, is a specialist on the ethnomusicology of Indonesia and Southeast Asia and the world authority on the music of Sumatra. Her other books include The Gamelan Digul and the Prison-Camp Musician Who Built It: An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution.

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