ABSTRACT
Throughout Indonesia, gamelan music often serves as an accompaniment for dance or other movement-oriented performances (such as wayang). This chapter explores the relationship between Sundanese dance and music, and how Sundanese individual’s manipulate music and dance as units of cultural meaning to make sense out of the circumstances of their own lives. Exploring the continuities and changes in Sundanese tradition illuminates the significance of the performing arts not only in Indonesia, but everywhere else as well.
