Publications Wim van Zanten
Update 23 April 2017 - Wim van Zanten
Major publications Wim van Zanten




Presentation at conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia,
26 August 2011. (Photograph by Vojko Veršnik.)





Educational films

2006       "Yong Diwuge Shouzhi Yanzou Sanglang Changdi: Laizi Xisumendaladao Paikubuha de Shuqing Gequ" ("Play the Saluang flute, use your fifth finger; Lyrical songs from Payakumbuh, West Sumatra"; Documentory film, 45 minutes, part of DVD with book), in ZHUANG Kongshao(ed), Renlei Xue ("Anthropology"). Beijing: China Renmin University Press, ISBN 7-300-07152-x/c.304.

2002        Play the saluang flute, use your fifth finger; Lyrical songs from Payakumbuh, West Sumatra. Educational film [DVD/ video] + Documentation book (4.3 Mb) 32 pp. [ISBN 90-74917-26-7; NUR 064-055.] Leiden: Institute of Cultural and Social Studies, Leiden University / International Institute for Asian Studies.

2000        Told in heaven to become stories on earth; A study of change in Randai theatre of the Minangkabau in West Sumatra using visual documentation from the 1930s. Educational film, 48 minutes + Documentation book (6 Mb) 54 pp. Leiden: Institute of Cultural and Social Studies, University of Leiden/ International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden-Amsterdam. First author; with Bart Barendregt.


Books

1994       Statistika untuk ilmu-ilmu sosial. [Statistics for the social sciences]. Second edition. [First edition 1980 (5000 copies); first edition second printing 1982 (5000 copies); 1994: 3000 copies printed.] 498 + xxii pp., tabels, register, list statistical terms English-Indonesian; ISBN 979-511-416-6. Jakarta: Gramedia.

1989a       Sundanese music in the Cianjuran style; Anthropological and musicological aspects of Tembang Sunda. Dordrecht/ Providence-USA: Foris. [KITLV Verhandelingen 140, xiii + 246 pp., ISBN 90 6765 455 8.]

1989b       Demonstration tape accompanying Sundanese music in the Cianjuran style. Dordrecht/ Providence-USA: Foris. [KITLV cassette tape 90 min. with documentation, ISBN 90 6765 456 6.]

1987       Tembang Sunda; An ethnomusicological study of the Cianjuran music in West Java, xv + 305 pp. With musical examples, photo's, tables, register; ISBN 90-6624-076-8, Leiden [PhD dissertation University of Leiden].

1985       Structurele modellen in de antropologie en sociologie; een formele beschrijving van relaties en transformaties, iii + 40 pp. [ICA Publicaties no.69] Leiden: Institute for Cultural and Social Studies, University of Leiden.

1982       Statistika untuk ilmu-ilmu sosial. Second printing. [Almost unchanged reprint of first print in 1980.] Jakarta: Gramedia.

1980       Statistika untuk ilmu-ilmu sosial [Statistics for the social sciences.] 513 + xxiv pp., tabels, register, list statistical terms English-Indonesian. Jakarta: Gramedia.

1980       Kumpulan soal pilihan berganda tentang statistika untuk ilmu-ilmu sosial [Set of multiple-choice exercises about Statistics for the Social sciences.], ix + 158 pp., tabellen, antwoorden, Jakarta: Gramedia.

1975       Markov ketens; enkele toepassingen in antropologie en sociologie, 67 pp., [ICA Publicaties no.10], Leiden: Institute for Cultural and Social Studies, University of Leiden.



Edited books and issues of journals

2010        Guest editor Yearbook for traditional music  42. Published by the International Council for Traditional Music. ISSN 0740-1558.

2005        Oideion; Performing Arts Online, Issue 4 (July 2005), [peer-reviewed multimedia journal.]

2003        Oideion; The performing arts world-wide 3. Leiden: Nederlandse Vereniging voor Etnomusicologie "Arnold Bake"/ Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, Leiden University. ISBN 90-808399-1-4/ NUR 664 [131+viii pp.] Research School CNWS. viii + 131 pp.

2002        Glossaire patrimoine culturel immatériel/ Glossary intangible cultural heritage. Préparé par une réunion internationale d'experts à l'UNESCO, 10-12 juin 2002/ prepared by an international meeting of experts at UNESCO, 10-12 June 2002. Réalisé sous la direction scientifique/ edited by Wim van Zanten. The Hague / La Haye : Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO/ Commission nationale néerlandaise pour l'UNESCO. [17+iii pp.]

1999        Oideion; Performing Arts Online, Issue 3 (July 1999), [peer-reviewed multimedia journal.]

1998        Guest editor Yearbook for traditional music 30. ISSN 0740-1558.

1998        Oideion; Performing Arts Online, Issue 2 (September 1998), [peer-reviewed multimedia journal.]

1997        Oideion; Performing Arts Online, Issue 1 (November 1997), [peer-reviewed multimedia journal.]

1995        (edited with Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen) Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 151, Aflevering 4: 'Performing arts in Southeast Asia', (pp.485-730). ISSN 0006-2294.

1995        (edited with Marjolijn van Roon): Oideion; The performing arts world-wide 2. Special issue 'Ethnomusicology in the Netherlands; Present situation and traces of the past'. [CNWS Publications no.35, ISSN 0925-3084.]. Leiden: Research School CNWS. 330+ix pp. ISBN 90-73782-44-9.

1993        Oideion; The performing arts world-wide. Wim van Zanten, editor. 123+vii pp. Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies. [CNWS Publicaties no 14; ISBN 90-73782-17-1.]

1991        Across the boundaries: women's perspectives. Wim van Zanten, editor, 124pp., ISBN 90-72631-33-1. Leiden: Women and Autonomy Centre (VENA).

1991       (edited with Kees Epskamp) Antropologische Verkenningen 10(4), 63pp. [Issue on Anthropology of Theatre.]



Articles and contributions to books

2016        "Perjumpaan dalam konteks musik Sunda yang inspiratif dan teori-teori problematis", in Bart Barendregt and Els Bogaerts (eds) Merenungkan Gema; Perjumpaan Musikal Indonesia-Belanda pp. 227-258. Jakarta: Pustaka Obor Indonesia / KITLV-Jakarta. [Translated from English edition 2014, Recollecting resonances; ..., by Landung Simatupang.]

2016        "Some notes on the pantun storytelling of the Baduy minority group; Its written and audiovisual documentation", Wacana, Jurnal Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya 17: 404-437. [Special issues Stories and Storytelling in Indonesia I and II, edited by Clara Brakel-Papenhuysen, Susi Moeimam and Tom Hoogervorst.]

2014        "Musical aspects of popular music and Pop Sunda in West Java", in: Bart Barendregt (ed.) Sonic modernities in the Malay world: A history of popular music, social distinction and novel lifestyles (1930s-2000s), pp. 323-352. Leiden/Boston: Brill. Sonic modernities in the Malay world is available on Brill Open Access [http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004261778].

2014        "Encounters in the context of inspiring Sundanese music and problematic theories", in: Bart Barendregt and Els Boagaerts (eds) Recollecting resonances: Indonesian-Dutch musical encounters, pp. 203-230. Leiden/Boston: Brill. Recollecting Resonances is available on Brill Open Access [http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004258594].

2012        "Social qualities of time and space created in performing arts of West Java: The implications for safeguarding living culture", Wacana; Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia 14:121-144.

2011        "La cultura viva entre el amanecer y el crepúsculo. Reflexiones acerca del tiempo, la tecnología y el resguardo de la cultura viva". In: Lourdes Arizpe (coord.), Compartir el patrimonio cultural inmaterial: narrativas y representaciones, pp.205-230. México: Dirección General de Culturas Populares / Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma di México.

2011        (with Bart Barendregt) "Popular music in Indonesia since 1998, in particular fusion, Indie and Islamic music on video compact discs and the Internet". In Tony Langlois (ed.), Non-Western popular music, pp. 389-435. [Reprint from 2002 Yearbook for Traditional Music 34:67-113.] Farnham, England/ Burlington, USA: Ashgate.

2011        "The discourse on Islam and music in West Java, with emphasis on the music group ath-Thawaf', in: David D. Harnish and Anne K. Rasmussen (eds), Divine inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia, pp. 241-65. Oxford/ New York: Oxford University Press.

2010        "Auteursrecht, contracten en kennisoverdracht: ervaringen met etnomusicologische documentatie", in Lucky P.C. Belder (ed.), Documentatie van cultureel erfgoed in juridisch perspectief, pp. 85-96. Amsterdam: DeLex.

2010        "Unesco en intellectueel eigendomsrecht: cd series en audiovisueel materiaal van 2003 conventie", in Lucky P.C. Belder (ed.), Documentatie van cultureel erfgoed in juridisch perspectief, pp. 97-110. Amsterdam: DeLex.

2009        "Prior informed consent: Experiences with ethnomusicology recordings", in Toshiyuki KONO, Intangible cultural heritage and intellectual property: Communities, cultural diversity and sustainable development, pp. 283-308. Antwerp - Oxford - Portland: Intersentia.

2008        "The marriage relationship between player and Kacapi zither in West Java", Ethnomusicology Forum 17(1): 41-65.

2007       "God is not only in the holy scriptures, but also in the arts: Music, cultural policies and Islam in West Java, Indonesia", Article after presentation at the conference on Music in the world of Islam, Assilah, Marocco, 8-13 August 2007. God is not only in the holy scriptures... [http://www.mcm.asso.fr/site02/music-w-islam/articles/van_Zanten-2007.pdf]

2005       "Een prijsvraag brengt uitkomst; Cijfers en grafische notaties voor muziek in Java", in Berkel, Rob (ed.), Muziek OpSchrift; De wereld van de muzieknotatie, pp. 100-103. Tilburg: Scryption Boekenfonds. [ISBN 90-75159-27-7].

2004       "The relation between inner and outer voices in Sundanese popular music in the era of globalization", in Ajip Rosidi et al. (eds) Sundalana 3 (Bupati di Priangan dan kajian lainnya mengenai budaya Sunda), pp.155-163. [Bandung: Pusat Studi Sunda.]

2004       "Constructing new terminology for intangible cultural heritage", Museum International 221-222 [Views and visions of the intangible]:36-44. [ISSN 1350-0775]

2004       "Les tentations des ascètes : Patrimoine culturel immatériel des Baduy dans le Banten du sud (Indonésie)", dans Jean Duvignaud et Chérif Chaznadar (eds), Le patrimoine culturel immatériel; Les enjeux, les problématiques, les pratiques, pp. 124-150. Paris: Babel/ Maison des Cultures du Monde [Internationale de l'Imaginaire - Novelle Série No. 17; ISBN 2-7427-4632-3]. [Also available on http://www.maisondesculturesdumonde.org/sites/default/files/editions/mep_le_patrimoine_culturel....pdf]

2003      "Editor's Preface", in Wim van Zanten (ed.) Oideion; The performing arts word-wide 3, pp.v-viii. Leiden: Nederlandse Vereniging voor Etnomusicologie "Arnold Bake"/ Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, Leiden University.

2002       "Popular music in Indonesia since 1998, in particular fusion, Indie and Islamic music on video compact discs and the internet", Yearbook for Traditional Music 34:67-113. (with Bart Barendregt)

2002        "Il teatro musicale", in Magrini, Tullia Universi sonori: Introduzione all'etnomusicologia, pp. 316-333. Torino: Einaudi. [ISBN 88-06-16137-7.]

2002        "Between musicology and anthropology: Methodological issues in twentieth-century ethnomusicology in the Netherlands”, in Han F. Vermeulen and Jean Kommers (eds.) Tales from Academia: History of Anthropology in the Netherlands, 1770-2000, Vol. 2:937-962. Nijmegen: NICCOS/Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik [2 vols., Nijmegen Studies in Development and Cultural Change 39-40; ISSN 0935-7173]

1997       (with Hanne de Bruin) 'Performance of South-Indian Kattaikkuttu theatre marks the opening of the PAATI Research Programme' , Oideion; Performing arts online 1, [peer-reviewed multimedia journal], .

1997       'Inner and outer voices; Hearing and listening in West Java', The World of Music 39(2): 41-49

1997       'Ethnomusicology in the Netherlands since 1960', Oideion; Performing arts online 1, [peer-reviewed multimedia journal]

1995       (with Ellen van Zanten) 'De kracht van muziek in Malawische verhalen', in Connie Baak, Mary Bakker, Dick van der Meij (eds) Tales from a concave world; Liber amicorum Bert Voorhoeve, pp.586-601. University of Leiden: Projects Division, Department of Languages and Cultures of South-East Asia and Oceania.

1995       'Ethnomusicology in the Netherlands, 1960-1995; Some general trends', in van Zanten, Wim and Marjolijn van Roon, Oideion; The performing arts world-wide 2, pp.27-47. Leiden: Research School CNWS.

1995       'Notation of music; Theory and practice in West Java', in van Zanten, Wim and Marjolijn van Roon, Oideion; The performing arts world-wide 2, pp.209-33. Leiden: Research School CNWS.

1995       'Aspects of Baduy music in its sociocultural context, with special reference to singing and angklung', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 151:516-44.

1994       'L'esthétique musicale de Sunda (Java-Ouest)', Cahiers de Musiques Traditionelles 7:75-93.

1993       'Sung epic narrative and lyrical songs: carita pantun and tembang Sunda' in Arps, Ben (ed.): Performance in Java and Bali; Studies of narrative, theatre, music and dance, pp.144-161. London: School of Oriental and African Studies.

1992       'Sundanese women as mediators in music' in Bemmelen, Sita van, Madelon Djajadiningrat-Nieuwenhuis, Elsbeth Locher-Scholten and Elly Touwen-Bouwsma (eds): Women and mediation in Indonesia, pp.290-292. Leiden: KITLV Press. [Verhandelingen 152.]

1991       'Een muziekinstrument als paspoort', Antropologische Verkenningen 10(4):53-62.

1991       'Epilogue', in van Zanten, Wim (ed.): Across the boundaries: women's perspectives, pp.119-124. ISBN 90-72631-33-1. Leiden: Women and Autonomy Centre (VENA), University of Leiden.

1991       'Ornamen vibrato dalam Têmbang Sunda Cianjuran', Seni Pertunjukan Indonesia; Jurnal Masyarakat Musikologi Indonesia II(2):119-133.

1991       'Teksten van liederen bij het stampen van mais in Malawi' in Claessen, Hans, Marijke van den Engel en Dorine Plantenga (eds): Het kweekbed ontkiemd, pp.287-96. Leiden: Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen, University of Leiden.

1986       'The tone material of the kacapi in Tembang Sunda in West Java', Ethnomusicology 30: 84-112.

1984       'The poetry of Tembang Sunda', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 140: 289-316.

1983       'Malawian pango music from the viewpoint of information theory', African Music Vol. 6(3): 90-106.

1980       'The equidistant heptatonic scale of the Asena in Malawi', African Music Vol. 6(1): 107-125.


Book and CD reviews

2009        Book review Lisa Gilman, The Dance of Politics: Gender, Performance, and Democratization in Malawi, 2009, in The World of Music 51(2):169-71.

2008        Book review Henk Mak van Dijk, De oostenwind waait naar het westen; Indische componisten, Indische composities, 1898-1945, 2007, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 164: 580-82.

1999        Book review Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams (eds), The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music 4: Southeast Asia. In The world of music 41(2): 179-80.

1999        CD review 'Music tradition of Malawi', Yearbook for traditional music 31:179-80.

1998        Book and CD review Antoinet Schimmelpenninck, Chinese folks songs and folk singers; Shan'ge traditions in southern Jiangsu. In Oideion; Performing arts online, Issue 2 (September 1998).

1996        CD review Philip Yampolsky (ed.), Music of Indonesia, Volumes 1-6. Series of CDs/cassette tapes with documentation, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 152:179-82.

1996        Book review Jaap Kunst, Indonesian music and dance; Traditional music and its interaction with the West. [Recueil d'articles (1934-1952) publiés à l'origine en néerlandais, avec des études biographiques de Ernst Heins, Elisabeth den Otter et Felix van Lamsweerde.]' in Cahiers de Musiques Traditionelles 9:317-20.

1994        Book review Rainer Carle, Opera Batak, das Wandertheater der Toba-Batak in Nord-Sumatra: Schauspiele zur Wahrung kultureller Identitaet im nationalen Kontext. In Notes (June 1994):1432-34.

1993        Book review Clara Brakel-Papenhuijzen, The bedhaya court dances of central Java, in van Zanten, Wim (ed.): Oideion; The performing arts world-wide, pp.110-112, Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies.

1991        Book review Leo J. Plenckers, De muziek van de Algerijnse muwaššaḥ: een onderzoek naar haar geschiedenis en structuur. [PhD dissertation University of Amsterdam, 1989]. In Etnomusicologen Nieuwsbrief 11:13-16.

1986        Book review Nigel Phillips, Sijobang, sung narrative poetry of West Sumatra (1981). In Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 142:187-89.

1973        Book review Hugo Zemp, Musique Dan - La musique dans la pensée et la vie sociale d´une société africaine. In Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 129:181-82.



Other scientific publications

2017        "Sustainability of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Baduy minority group in West Java, Indonesia", in Patricia Matusky and Wayland Quintero et al. (eds), Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia, held in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, 31 July - 6 August 2016, pp.92-97. Penang: Universiti Sains Malaysia. [ISBN: 978-967-461-120-0].

2015        "Dancing Baduy ascetics", in Mohd Anis Md Nor et al. (eds), Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia, held in Denpasar, Indonesia, 14-20 June 2014, pp.117-121. Denpasar: ICTM Study Group on the Performing Arts of Southeast Asia. [ISBN: 978-602-9164-14-5].

2013        "A generalized perspective on elements of living culture: Listing is not enough for understanding", in Final Report of the 2013 IRCI meeting on ICH - Evaluating the inscription criteria for the two lists of UNESCO´s Intangible Cultural Heritage convention, held in Tokyo, Japan, 10-11 January 2013, pp.138-149. Osaka, Japan: International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI).

2012        ´The relation between communities and their living culture as represented by audiovisual files´, in Final Report of the First ICH-Researchers Forum The implementation of UNESCO´s 2003 convention held in Paris, 3 June 2012, pp. 87-92. Osaka, Japan: International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI).

2012        ´Communities and documentation in Indonesian safeguarding policies,´ in Final Report on the first intensive researchers meeting on communities and the 2003 convention: Documentation of intangible cultural heritage as a tool for community´s safeguarding activities held in Tokyo, 3-4 March 2012, pp.63-70. Osaka, Japan: International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI).

2009        (ed.) Abstracts of the 40th World conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Durban, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal. (98 pp.)

2007        "Prior informed consent; Experiences with ethnomusicological recordings." Video presentation on DVD, 22 minutes. Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization, Creative Heritage Project.

2007        "Prior informed consent; Experiences with ethnomusicological recordings in Indonesia," Video recording 9 minutes at website of World Intellectual Property Organization, Creative Heritage Project, [recorded in Geneva, 5 June 2007] See video [http://www.wipo.int/multimedia/en/cultural_heritage/wim_van_zanten/index.html]

2007       (with Stephen Wild, eds), Abstracts of the 39th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Vienna: University of Music and Performing Arts. (297 pp.)

2004       (with Uking Sukri) Performing Cianjuran music; Practical lessons for the course Anthropology of Music. Unpublished materials, including a CD and transcribed music for all parts. Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, University Leiden [earlier editions as from 1992.]

2003       Sound track 19 and liner notes for "Malume a mwana" on CD Field recordings of Dutch ethnomusicologists 1938-2000. Leiden: PAN Records / Dutch Society for Ethnomusicology "Arnold Bake". AB9103.

1999       'Verslag congres European Seminar in Ethnomusicology te Jeruzalem, 29 aug-3 sept.1998', Bakeliet 25:7-8.

1998        'Oideion en het World Wide Web', Bakeliet 23:11-14.

1998        'Hars van Kunst, lied van Bake en toekomstmuziek', Bakeliet 23: 8-10.

1997        'Verslag symposium Technologie en nieuwe media in de Etnomusicologie, Hilversum, 12 mei 1997', Bakeliet 21:6-8.

1992        "Traditionele muziek in Indonesie", in Ferguson, Margaretha, Henk Maier en Kees Snoek (eds), Nusantara pp. 12-13. Amsterdam: Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek.

1988        'Muziek en Trance; Notities bij Rouget's boek', Etnomusicologen Nieuwsbrief 3:3-12.

1988        'Notatie van soendanese muziek', Etnomusicologen Nieuwsbrief 2:2-6

1987        'Cianjuran: kamermuziek uit Sunda', Etnomusicologen Nieuwsbrief 0:2-6 [samenvatting van proefschrift maart 1987].