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UbuWeb Ethnopoetics: Ketjak -- The Ramayana Monkey Dance

Performed by more than 200 men seated in tight concentric circles around a small central space reserved for the chief protagonists, the ketjak (loosely called "Monkey Chant") was first recorded in Bali by David Lewiston and released by Nonesuch Records in 1969. As a spectacular and alternative performance mode, it has had a germinal influence on western performance and poetics since then.

Posted by Mike on December 2, 2005 1:58 PM |

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