Buku ini berisi urana mengenai seni di Indonesia, mulai dari sastra, seni rupa, wayang, film, tradisi, teater, topeng, srimulat, dangdut, musik pop, ballet, hingga novel.
Buku ini berisi informasi mengenai tari di Jawa, wayang, istilah-istilahnya, billingualism, perkembangan seni pertunjukkan tradisional, tari dan pencak, jalan perkembangan tari di Indonesia, Zaman baru, kritik tari, studi sejarah kesenian di Indonesia, dan permasalahan sejarah tari dilihat pada kasus masa Jawa Kuna.
Indonesia’s vast cultural diversity is exemplified in the endless variety of its performing arts, from entertaining processions and village mask dances to the wayang shadow puppet theatre of Java with stories taken from the Indian epics and the local Panji cycle, from traditional musical accompaniments by the full slendro and pelogtuned gamelan and smaller local ensembles to the wayang wong a…