MAK YONG THROUGH THE AGES: KELANTAN’S TRADITIONAL DANCE THEATRE - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook MAK YONG THROUGH THE AGES: KELANTAN’S TRADITIONAL DANCE THEATRE write by Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof. This book was released on 2018-10-25. MAK YONG THROUGH THE AGES: KELANTAN’S TRADITIONAL DANCE THEATRE available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mak yong, the ancient Malay dance theatre form, is associated principally with the southern Thai Patani province and the Malaysian state of Kelantan on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula. It is also active in Terengganu and in the Riau islands of Indonesia where it is staged in a significantly variant form. Mak yong comprises the elements of story, formal and informal spoken text, stylized dance and acting, vocal and instrumental music, as well as ritual. It is performed both for entertainment as well as for healing specific types of emotional and psychological ailments. Mak yong is undoubtedly the most important of all traditional Malay theatre forms in terms of its content as well as performance style. Following an effort to revive this near- extinct art from 1969 onwards, it went through considerable changes as it shifted away from its rural base to urban centres, particularly Kuala Lumpur. The changes essentially attempted to “cleanse” Mak yong of some of the objectionable folk elements with a view to transform it into a sophisticated one intended for modern audiences, including tourists. Mak yong, was designated by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind in 2005. The listing was based on the Candidature File prepared by the present author, Ghulam–Sarwar Yousof, a leading specialist in traditional Southeast Asian theatre. He was the first person in the world to work on a doctorate on traditional Malay theatre with a dissertation on Mak yong submitted to the University of Hawaii in 1976. The present volume comprise a selection of his essays on various aspects of Mak yong presented at local and international seminars as well as published in several journals. The papers provide original and vital insghts into the history, aesthetics and functions of Mak yong as well as controversies surrounding it. The papers also touch upon issues connected with the survival of mak yong and the need for efforts to preserve what the author regards as the most unique of traditional Malay performing arts.
Mak Yong
Mak Yong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mak Yong write by Ghulam Sarwar Yousof. This book was released on 2019. Mak Yong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
ISSUES IN TRADITIONAL MALAYSIAN CULTURE
ISSUES IN TRADITIONAL MALAYSIAN CULTURE - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ISSUES IN TRADITIONAL MALAYSIAN CULTURE write by GHULAM-SARWAR YOUSOF. This book was released on 2014. ISSUES IN TRADITIONAL MALAYSIAN CULTURE available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contains a selection of non-academic materials on a wide range of topics related to Malaysian culture. Several of them deal with traditional Malay theatre genres, particularly mak yong, recognised by UNESCO as an item of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2005, the shadow play and bangsawan. Others record the contributions of prominent personalities as practitioners, preservers, teachers and transmitters of oral traditions. The author touches upon issues related to the precarious situation in the arts in a rapidly changing Malay society which has in general neglected traditional performing arts forms under pressures exerted by modenisation and the simultaneous wave of Islamicisation. His own involvement in teaching, research, documentation as well as preservation of many of these arts provides unique personal insights into some of the problems and pertinent issues. Other essays of a more general nature, touch upon the continuing and at times controversial relationships between Malay cultural manifestations and those in neighbouring countries, contributions of the minority Indian-Muslim community in Malaysia, and upon the role of the administration in the preservation of heritage. The brief accounts contained in this volume are presented in a direct and readable manner for the non-expert enthusiast of culture and the arts from the perspective of someone deeply and passionately involved.
Legal Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Legal Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legal Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage write by Diyana Sulaiman. This book was released on 2024-05-17. Legal Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book examines whether the protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) by Indonesia and Malaysia upheld the interests of the various communities from which the cultural heritage originates, and whether the laws recognise that cultural heritage is often shared with other states and communities. The legal classifications of various indigenous communities and the interpretations of ‘indigeneity’ in the two countries have presented problems in the context of ICH protection. The state is regarded as holding the intellectual property rights for some forms of ICH and this also posed problems in the implementation of the laws to protect the communities’ ICH. This book employs a community-based perspective and adopts a multidisciplinary approach in exploring questions of the rights to and benefits of heritage. This book will be useful for students, academics and policy makers with an interest in international law, heritage and intellectual property rights.
Panggung Semar
Panggung Semar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Panggung Semar write by Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof. This book was released on 2015-02-17. Panggung Semar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although stretching back into the unwritten and often mythic past, traditional Malay performing arts have, until recent times, been almost totally neglected. In recent years, the subject has begun to attract the serious scholarly interest it deserves. Such attention is timely, for the principal theatre genres, including Mak Yong, Wayang Kulit and the comparatively modern Bangsawan, have begun to suffer decline. Indeed, many of them are on the verge of extinction and, with time, will come the loss of an important facet of the native Malay genius. This volume by an acknowledged expert on Malaysian theatre, Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof, is a pioneering work on the subject, an invaluable contribution to Malay cultural studies. It discusses theatre from the perspectives of history, performance principles, functions and problems that have contributed to the decline of traditional performing arts in Malaysia. Also included is a chapter on Semangat, the Malay concept of soul, a seminal belief whose understanding allows for a deeper appreciation of Malay theatre and its role in traditional society. A vital forerunner of several books on the traditional performing arts and cultural traditions of the Malays, this volume is a landmark in cultural research by a Malaysian scholar.
