{"id":543,"date":"2012-08-14T10:48:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T14:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/?p=543"},"modified":"2013-04-07T19:50:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T23:50:44","slug":"ramayana-monkey-chant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/ramayana-monkey-chant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramayana Monkey Chant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat;\"><p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T880ah7clnA\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe> Kecak (pronounced [\u02c8ket\u0283a\u0294], alternate spellings: Ketjak and Ketjack) is a form of Balinese dance and music drama, it originated in the 1930s Bali and is performed primarily by men, although a few women&#8217;s kecak groups exist as of 2006.[1]<\/p>\n<p>Also known as the Ramayana Monkey Chant, the piece, performed by a circle of 150 or more performers wearing checked cloth around their waists, percussively chanting &#8220;cak&#8221; and throwing up their arms, depicts a battle from the Ramayana where the monkey-like Vanara helped Prince Rama fight the evil King Ravana. However, Kecak has roots in sanghyang, a trance-inducing exorcism dance.[2]<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kecak\">&#8211; Wikipedia <\/a><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know if http:\/\/www.geneshay.com\/index2.html is still playing this but looking out my window this Tuesday morning before the fest maybe we should<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kecak (pronounced [\u02c8ket\u0283a\u0294], alternate spellings: Ketjak and Ketjack) is a form of Balinese dance and music drama, it originated in the 1930s Bali and is performed primarily by men, although a few women&#8217;s kecak groups exist as of 2006.[1] Also &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/ramayana-monkey-chant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1PNGT-8L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcoyne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}