Class Year
2014
Document Type
Audio
Publication Date
7-2013
Department 1
Conservatory of Music
Abstract
In the summer of 2013 a class of twelve Gettysburg College students went on a trip to Bali, Indonesia to learn gamelan music and to become immersed in Balinese culture. There the group experienced how it felt to become Balinese language learners, discussing how those experiences could be applied to future classrooms in order to accommodate English language learners.
This recording is part of a series of soundscapes from Bali that students created to capture specific moments from our trip. Wayang kulit is the art form of shadow puppetry. It encompasses visual art as well as gamelan music and traditionally serves to tell the story of the two main Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. During our trip we had a private wayang kulit performance in which the story of the Mahabharata was performed.
Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Broadway, Alice C., "The Sounds of Bali: Wayang kulit" (2013). Bali Soundscapes Essays. 1.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/bali/1
Comments
This piece is part of the Bali Soundscapes collection, which features photographs, audio essays, and written essays by Gettysburg College students who took the Language, Culture, & Immigration in Bali course during the summer of 2013. See http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/balisoundscapes/ for more.