Bibliography about Jaap Kunst and Katy Kunst-Van Wely

Aryandari, Citra 2022. “Jaap Kunst Legacy: A Site of Forgetting, Remembering and History-Making” (with an abstract in Indonesian) Resital 23 (3), 160–168. 

Aryandari, Citra & Barbara Titus [no date]. “Kompleksitas Jaap Kunst dalam ‘Merekam’ Etnomusikologi”, available online: https://www.citraaryandari.com/?page_id=275 

Bake, Arnold 1961. “Obituary: Jaap Kunst, August 12, 1891-December 7, 1960” Acta Musicologica 33, 67–69. 

Becker, Judith 1975. “Reviewed Work: Music in Java; Its History, Its Theory and Its Technique” Ethnomusicology 19 (2), 310–315.  

Bos, Paula R. 1999. Biographies of Florenese Musical Instruments and Their Collectors. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute (Bulletin; 347). 

Brinkgreve, Clara 2009. Met Indië verbonden: Een verhaal van vier generaties 1849-1949. Zutphen: Walburg Pers.  

Buyse, Achiel. 2021 “Seeing the Music Performed – The Role of Film in Jaap Kunst’s Musicological Research and the Challenge of Archiving it for the Future”. [Unpublished MA Thesis submitted to University of Amsterdam] 

Djajadiningrat, Madelon & Clara Brinkgreve 2013. “A Musical Friendship: The Correspondence between Mangkunegoro VII and the Ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst, 1919-1940” in Els Bogaerts & Bart Barendregt (eds) Recollecting Resonances: Indonesian-Dutch Musical Encounters. Leiden: Brill, 179–202. 

Gandolahage, Rahul 2021. “Grote archieven koloniale geluiden amper toegankelijk” Interview with Barbara Titus and meLê yamomo, NRC Cultureel Supplement (25 February), C14-15.   

Heins, Ernst 1976. “On Jaap Kunst’s Music in Java” Ethnomusicology 20 (1), 97–101. 

_____. 1994 “Jaap Kunst and the Rise of Ethnomusicology” in: Heins, Ernst, Elisabeth den Otter & Felix van Lamsweerde (eds) Indonesian Music and Dance: Traditional Music and its Interaction with the West: A Compilation of Articles (1934-1952) originally published in Dutch. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute/Ethnomusicology Centre ‘Jaap Kunst’. 

Heins, Ernst, Elisabeth den Otter & Felix van Lamsweerde 1994. Indonesian Music and Dance: Traditional Music and its Interaction with the West: A Compilation of Articles (1934-1952) originally published in Dutch. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute/Ethnomusicology Centre ‘Jaap Kunst’. 

Heins, Marleen 1994. “Reviewed Work: Jaap Kunst, Indonesian music and dance; Traditional music and dance; Traditional music and its interaction with the West by E. Heins, E. den Otter, F. van Lamsweerde” Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 150 (3), 602–603. 

Herzog, George 1947. “Reviewed Work: Een en ander over de Muziek en den Dans of de Kei‐Eilanden. Jaap Kunst” American Anthropologist 49 (2), 299–304. 

Hoebe, Marleen 2021. “Twee UvA’ers proberen beroemd geluidsarchief weer bijeen te brengen” Interview with Barbara Titus and meLê yamomo, Folia (7 May). 

Hood, Mantle 1961. “Reviewed Work: Ethnomusicology by Jaap Kunst” Western Folklore 20 (1), 69–70. 

_____. 1971. The Ethnomusicologist. New York: McGraw-Hill. 

_____. 1976. “Reviewed Work: Music in Java; Its History, Its Theory and Its Technique by Jaap Kunst, E. L. Heins” Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 8, 133–136. 

_____. 2001. “Jaap Kunst” New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.15671 

Hughes, David W. 1995. “Reviewed Works: Indonesian Music and Dance: Traditional Music and its Interaction with the West by Jaap Kunst; Jaap Kunst, Correspondence 1920-1940: An Annotated Index by L.M. van Proosdij-Ten Have, M.J. van Roon; Oideion: The Performing Arts World-Wide by Wim van Zanten, Marjolein van Roon” British Journal of Ethnomusicology 4, 157–158. 

Husmann, Heinrich 1961. “Jaap Kunst zum Gedächtnis” Die Musikforschung 14 (3), 257–258. 

Indra Fibiona Suwarno 2018. R.M. Jayadipura: Maestro Budaya Jawa 1878-1939: Sebuah Biografi. Yogyakarta: Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. 

Koenis, Stef 2018. “Jaap Kunst – Early Ethnomusicological Research and the Voice of Indonesia.” [Unpublished MA Thesis submitted to University of Amsterdam.] 

Lamsweerde, Felix van 1961. “Obituary: Jaap Kunst” Sonorum speculum 6, 36. 

_____. 1994a. “Jaap Kunst’s Field Recordings” in: Ernst Heins, Elisabeth den Otter & Felix van Lamsweerde (eds) Indonesian Music and Dance: Traditional Music and its Interaction with the West: A Compilation of Articles (1934-1952) originally published in Dutch. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute/Ethnomusicology Centre ‘Jaap Kunst’, 36–48. 

_____. 1994b “Inventory of the Wax Cylinder Collection of the Tropenmuseum.” in: Ernst Heins, Elisabeth den Otter & Felix van Lamsweerde (eds) Indonesian Music and Dance: Traditional Music and its Interaction with the West: A Compilation of Articles (1934-1952) originally published in Dutch. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute/Ethnomusicology Centre ‘Jaap Kunst’, 247–273. 

Margana, Sri [forthcoming]. “The Genealogy of Colonial Knowledge on Javanese Gamelan: The Correspondence between Jaap Kunst and Raden Mas Jayadipura”, Paramita, vol 34. 

Merriam, Alan P. 1977. “Definitions of ‘Comparative Musicology’ and ‘Ethnomusicology’: An Historical-Theoretical Perspective” Ethnomusicology 21 (2), 189–204. 

Messner, Gerald Florian 1989. “Jaap Kunst Revisited. Multipart Singing in Three East Florinese Villages Fifty Years Later: A Preliminary Investigation” The World of Music 31 (2), 3–51. 

Metzelaar, Helen & Barend Linders 2012. Sempre appassionato: 75 jaar muziekwetenschap in Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Vossiuspers. 

Nettl, Bruno & Philip Bohlman (eds). 1991. Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology). 

Nijem, Layan 2022. “Hearing Differently: An investigation of the Jaap Kunst Sound Collection as a Site of Colonial Entanglements” [Unpublished MA Thesis submitted to University of Amsterdam] 

Nusi Lisabilla Estudiantin 2019. “Melacak Jejak Jaap Kunst” Jakarta: Museum Nasional, available at: https://www.museumnasional.or.id/melacak-jejak-jaap-kunst-1917 

Paap, Wouter 1961. “Obituary: Jaap Kunst” Mens en Melodie 16, 1–6. 

Peters, Joseph 1995. “Reviewed Work: Indonesian Music and Dance: Traditional Music and its Interaction with the West by Jaap Kunst, Ernst Heins, Elisabeth den Otter” Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 68 (2), 156–158. 

Proosdij-ten Have, Loekie & Marjolijn van Roon 1992. Jaap Kunst, Correspondence 1920–1940: An Annotated Index. Amsterdam: Proosdij/Van Roon. 

Rappoport, Dana. 2010. “L’énigme des duos alternés à Flores et Solor (Lamaholot, Indonesie)” Archipel, 215–256. 

Reeser, Eduard 1960-61. “In Memoriam Jaap Kunst. 12 Augustus 1891-7 December 1960” Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 19 (1–2), 4–5 

Savitri, Isma 2020. ‘Jaap Kunst yang terlupakan’ Tempo (18 January). 

Schaeffner, A. 1940. “Reviewed Works: Music in Nias (Mededeelingen der afdeeling Volkenkunde van het Koloniaal Instituut; 2) by Jaap Kunst; Music in Flores (Mededeelingen der afdeeling Volkenkunde van het Koloniaal Instituut; 6) by Jaap Kunst” L’Année sociologique, Troisième série, T. 2, 890-891. 

Steinmann, Alfred 1942. “Reviewed Work: Kunst Jaap: Music in Flores” Anthropos 37, 449. 

Terwen, Jan Willem. 2009. Gamelan in the 19th-century Netherlands: An Encounter between East and West. Utrecht: Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (Muziekhistorische monografieën; 20). 

Titus, Barbara 2018. “The ‘attentively silent’ presence of Jaap Kunst in the Society for the History of Netherlands Music (VNM)”. Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 68, 173–184. 

_____. 2019. ‘Jaap Kunst dan Pentingnya Koleksi Musik Indonesia Miliknya’ in Melacak jejak Jaap Kunst: Suara dari Masa Lalu [Exhibition Catalogue 28 November 2019 – 10 January 2020] Jakarta: Museum Nasional.  

_____. 2022. “Tracing Earlines in Ethnomusicology” in: Mark Delaere (ed.) Noise as Constructive Element in Music: Theoretical and Music-Analytical Perspectives. London [etc.]: Routledge (Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century), 54–71. 

_____. [forthcoming]. “Epistemic Shifts and Ideological Persistence: Ethnographic, Archival and Historiographical Practices in the Legacy of Jaap Kunst” in Henry Spiller & Anna Maria Busse Berger Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago, Chapter 14. Berkeley: University of California Press. 

Titus, Barbara & meLê yamomo 2021. “The Persistent Refrain of the Colonial Archival Logic/Colonial Entanglements and Sonic Transgressions: Sounding Out the Jaap Kunst Collection.” the world of music (new series) 10 (1), 39–70. 

_____. 2024. “Rehearsing Decolonial Curatorship of Southeast Asian Sound Archives in Europe” in: Pepijn Brandon, Emma van Bijnen, Karwan Fatah-Black, Imara Limon, Wayne Modest & Margriet Schavemaker (eds) The Future of Dutch Colonial Past: Curating Heritage, Art and Activism. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 110–123. 

Vermeulen, Matthijs. 1931a. ‘Achter de noten’ De Gids 95/3, 271-277. 

_____. 1931b. ‘Hic et nunc, Jacobe!’ De Gids 95/4, 278-284. 

Vetter, Roger 1997-98. “Reviewed Work: Indonesian Music and Dance: Traditional Music and Its Interaction with the West; A Compilation of Articles (1934-1952) Originally Published in Dutch by Jaap Kunst, Ernst Heins, Elisabeth den Otter, Felix van Lamsweerde” Asian Music 29 (1), 125–128. 

Weiss, Sarah 1999. “Reviewed Work: Indonesian Music and Dance: Traditional Music and Its Interaction with the West. A Compilation of Articles (1935-1952) by Jaap Kunst Originally Published in Dutch with Biographical Essays by Ernst Heins, Elisabeth den Otter, and Felix van Lamsweerde”, Yearbook for Traditional Music 31, 130–131. 

yamomo, meLê 2021. “Acoustic Epistemologies and Early Sound Recordings in the Nusantara Region: Phonography, Archive, and the Birth of Ethnomusicology” in: Mayco A. Santaella & Adil Johan (eds) Made in Nusantara. New York: Routledge, 75–82. 

Zanten, Wim van & Marjolijn van Roon (eds) 1995. Oideion The Performing Arts World-Wide. Leiden: Leiden Research School CNWS. 

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