Abstract:Contemporary gamelan performance outside Indonesia—and more broadly speaking, the discipline of ethnomusicology—owes a largely unacknowledged debt to a group of Dutch teenagers, who formed the first long-term European gamelan group, Babar Layar, in the prohibitive circumstances of Nazi occupation. In this essay I discuss the establishment and subsequent activities of Babar Layar, also examining the group’s historical significance, particularly the impact it had—however unintentionally—on the incorporation of p… Show more
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