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Music, Myth, and Liturgy at the Lingsar Temple Festival in Lombok, Indonesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

David Harnish
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The people of Bali undertake an unusually large number of vibrant and frequent festivals and religious rites. Hindu Balinese culture is particularly famous for its numerous temples (approximately 25,000) and the Odalan festivals held at them each year. The Sasak people on the neighboring island of Lombok had at one time a large number of shrines with a similar schedule of annual or seasonal Gawe or Alip festivals. As Sasak society gradually transformed from a polytheistic culture to one which follows a reformed version of Islam, most of these pre-Islamic shrines were dismantled or abandoned. Only a few polytheistic shrines remain active in the latter twentieth century, and these have assumed Islamic associations.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 29 , 1997 , pp. 80 - 106
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Copyright © 1997 By The International Council for Traditional Music

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