Perfoming for Tourists (Redefining Performances, Performers and Audiences)

Contents Preface vii Acknowledgements xv List of illustrations xix 1 Route To Bali 1 Traditional Dance, Drama and Tourists 1 Framework 4 Research Route to Bali 5 Cross- Cultural Theatre and Beyond 7 Limitations 10 2 Tourists, Researchers and The Ubudian Performance Culture 13 Tourists as Audience 13 Glocal Ubud 15 Balinese Performing Culture: Continuity and Change 19 Images Bombed 21 Performing for Gods and Tourists 23 Economy of Performing for Tourists 25 Performing a Research on Ubud's Performance Culture 30 3 Makers and maintainers of images Of balinese performance culture 35 Balipedia and Tourism 35 The importance of Being Image Creators 38 Kebyar Images of the Balinese Performance Culture 45 Locals as Image Maintainers 48 Canonisers of Balinese Dance and Drama 51 Old and New Images? 58 4 Performing For Tourists :Blamed And Defended 61 History 61 Performing for Toursits: Blamed 65 performingfor Tourists: Defended 70 Verities Happen 74 Performing in a Different Manner 80 Kecak Means kecaks 84 Changes but Slow 88 Some Needed Transformations 89 5 Past, Present and Future of The Culture Of Performing For Tourists In Ubud 93 Tourism and The Ubudians 93 The Past and the Present of Performing for Tourists In Ubud 95 Banjar and Ubud's Performance Culture 100 Abud as Zones of Learning 110 Women Performers in Ubud 113 University Graduates and Local Performers 115 Future of Ubud's Performance Culture 121 6 Redefining Audience, performances And Performers 125 Tourist and the Performance Culture 125 Problematic of Canon 127 Anthropologists and Tourists 128 Expatriates and Tourists 131 Tourists of the Past and the Present 133 Local Audience and Tourists 134 Nature of Art and the Importance of Performing for Tourists 136 Performers and Tourists 139 7 Performing For Tourists And Beyond 143 Exigency of Performing 143 Redefining Tourists, Performances and Artists 144 But why Tourism? 149 Traditional Perfomance Cultures in the Republic Nepal 150 Glossary 157 Bibliography 163 Index 173