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Gamelan as an Actor: Life of Javanese Gamelan in Prague
Koubek, Daniel ; Zdrálek, Vít (advisor) ; Šidlo Friedl, Marian (referee)
This work investigates the life of Javanese gamelan in Prague (the Czech Republic). The author's intention was both to show the differences between the lives of the two sets of instruments of Javanese gamelan that currently can be found there in the Czech Republic. In his argument, that is highly dependent on using the Actor-Network Theory, these instruments' different historical social roles, narratives, lie beyond their meanings as things, but can only be observed when understanding them as actors forsing people to particular behavior and way of thinking about them. In other words, the author analysed the way how people who had ever played one or both these gamelans describe their relation to these instruments or what they found to be the most valuable aspect for them about playing Javanese gamelan in Prague. While a strong fascination by the gamelan instruments from the Liběchov castle can be observed among people who had played them after they were brought to the Czechoslovakia in 1989 as a result of the Czechoslovakia-Indonesian diplomatic relation, in case of the gamelan possessed by Embassy of Indonesia in Prague, mainly people who had already been to Indonesia in person become those who furthermore currently spread the competence of playing the Javanese gamelan in the Czech Republic. In...
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