An Associate Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) and came to UCR in the fall of 1996 after teaching two years at the University of Pittsburgh. Before that, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Grinnell College (1992-93) and also taught at Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Presently, he is finishing a book on shadow theater and music in rural Central Java based on past fieldwork in Java (1979-80, 1986-87, and 1994), to be published through KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies). When he returned to Java in 1998, specifically the region of Banyumas (western Central Java), he pursued his research on rural performing arts and Indonesian modernization. His most recently completed project is translating a contemporary Indonesian novel (in three volumes) by Ahmad Tohari entitled Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk [A Dancer of Paruk Village]. The novel explores the lives of a rural dancing girl and her childhood sweetheart as they experience the tumultuous changes in Indonesia from 1946 to 1971. The English translation, titled The Dancer, is published as a single volume through the Lontar Foundation ( Jakarta) and distributed worldwide.1
At a Glance
As of now, our resource library consists of approximately 568 writers, 787 books by 242 publishers, 724 contributing authors, 1073 (369 coverages, 200 clippings, and 504 reviews) articles published in 337 media outlets, 76 works in translation, and 58 useful resources that we consider particularly worth noting.
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For short, our main feature, the writer's directory, provides a way for writers to find one another, but more importantly, the resources provided make it easy for event hosts—especially for international event hosts—literary organizers, arts administrators, librarians, booksellers, and readers to get in touch with writers. It's a HOME FOR INDONESIAN WRITERS. We strive to break down the language barriers that have prevented Indonesian books or literature from becoming more widespread.
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