By Uwe U Paetzold, Paul H Mason

Combating arts have their very own good looks, inner philosophy, and are attached to cultural worlds in significant and critical methods. Combining methods from ethnomusicology, ethnochoreology, functionality idea and anthropology, the distinguishing characteristic of this ebook is that it highlights the centrality of the pluripotent paintings kind of pencak silat between Southeast Asian arts and its significance to a community of conventional and sleek appearing arts in Southeast Asia and past. through doing so, very important layers of neighborhood ideas on acting arts, ethics, society, spirituality, and private existence behavior are de-mystified. With a different switch within the means we view Southeast Asia, this booklet offers a wealth of knowledge a couple of complicated of acting arts concerning the so-called 'world of silat'. An ancillary media spouse site (www.bits4culture.org/pencaksilatandmusic/) is a part of this paintings. Login authorisation info is incorporated within the publication. members contain: Bussakorn Binson, Jean-Marc de Grave, Gisa Jahnichen, Margaret Kartomi, Zahara Kamal, Indija Mahjoeddin, Ako Mashino, Paul H. Mason, Uwe U. Paetzold, Kirstin Pauka, Henry Spiller and Sean Williams."

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24 Paetzold And Mason be good for? The aim has to be to create a human body providing the proper energy to learn how to defend oneself. How shall this self-defence training be executed, as an actual situation to defend oneself only occurs rarely, but the self-defence needs regular training? For this reason, the self-defence is cast into an art form; that is seni. In this form, it can be further trained alongside all self-defence neccessities, and alongside aesthetical aspects. For what shall this sublimation and aesthisation of physical movements serve?

Wilson’s (2002) research on pencak silat culture and its relations to state institutions in Indonesia, as well as Paetzold’s (2007a) report on the role of some pencak silat corporations within the Jakarta riots of Semanggi and Trisakti in 1998 are able to provide illustrations of this aspect. Another equally important aspect is the possibility self-defence arts can offer as a medium for intercultural education. The chapters by Indija Mahjoeddin (chapter 12) and Kirstin Pauka (chapter 13) especially stress this feature.

Introduction 1 Introduction Putting the Obscure into the Public: Pencak Silat and Music Uwe U. Paetzold and Paul H. Mason Paetzold and Mason The Cultural Salience of Self-Defence Arts Fighting, self-defence and physical aggression are habitually overlooked in studies of aesthetics. Fictional and non-fictional accounts of physical combat are frequently left undiscussed, often seem outside the scope of analytical examination, and remain invisible to many academic disciplines. This situation seems to be the case in spite of the massive presence of violence in everyday media.

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