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- Indonesia became independent of Dutch rule in the 1940s, allowing the country to develop its own national culture. Folk music known as kroncong developed with western influences throughout the 20th century. The country's government has institutionalized and supported its music industry through P.N. Lokananta since the late 1950s.
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This special issue of Asian Music, 44(2), views Indonesia as a complex modern multicultural nation, and investigates Indonesian music genres as historically and culturally situated, contingent discursive formations that are constantly evolving, their boundaries endlessly and passionately contested.
Indonesia is home to hundreds of forms of music, and music plays an important role in Indonesia’s art and culture. ‘Gamelan’ is the traditional music from central and east Java and Bali.‘Dangdut’ is very popular style of pop music is which is accompanied with by a dance style.
Indonesian Music. The Republic of Indonesia is an archipelago located in southeastern Asia, between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Border countries: Timor-Leste, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea.
- Country Profile
- Cultural History
- Islands Traditions
- Gamelan: Orchestral Ensemble & Musical Style
- Gamelan: Historical Context & Social Function
- Sources & Reading Suggestions
- Sources of Images
Situated in the Indian and Pacific oceans, the archipelago of Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia and the most extensive island complex in the world, comprising more than 15,000 islands that are home to more than 240 million people. Its islands are grouped into four main regions: the Greater Sunda Islands, which include Java, Sumatra...
Ancient Indonesia was characterised by small estuary kingdoms. Rich in natural resources, these small settlement provinces, led by raka (‘rulers’), mostly traded with their neighbours without warfare. As no single hegemonic power emerged, the early history of Indonesia is the development of distinct regions that only gradually threaded together. Sa...
With its immense scope in terms of peoples and languages, it is perhaps unsurprising that Indonesia is deeply culturally and musically diverse. Given that its fragmented islands only became a cohesive territory during the last century, unified notions of traditional ‘Indonesian culture’ or ‘Indonesian music’ are themselves somewhat contentious, and...
Gamelan(thought to derive from the low Javanese word gamel, ‘to hammer’) refers to both a gong-based orchestral ensemble and to the musical styles associated with such ensembles.Regionally,gamelan style is highly diverse and gamelan orchestras themselves differ in size, tunings, timbres, instruments and combinations to the extent each gamelan const...
The core social functions and purposes of gamelan have varied across different contexts, times and places. The cultural origins of the gamelan and indeed of the bossed bronze ‘gong’ (an onomatopoeic word assumed to be of Javanese origin) itself are somewhat unclear. The current prevailing theory is that the instrumental ancestors of the ‘gong’ are ...
American Gamelan Institute [Online Resource], . Gamelan Music of Java [Documentary Film] (East West Center, 1983). Gamelan of Java and Bali [Online Resource], . ‘Music of Indonesia Series’, Smithsonian Folkways Online, . Out of Asia: Gamelan [Documentary Film] (Museum of Instrumental Music (Phoe...
Header Image: Flickr Map of Indonesia: Britannica Prambanan Hindu Temple Compound: Unesco Sculpture of King Kertanagara: Britannica President Sukarno: Britannica Ground plan of common Central Javanese Gamelan setup: Javanese Gamelan from Yogyakarta: Freer and Sackler Galleries Gong ageng: National Music Museum Kenong:National Music Museum Siter:Nat...
May 28, 2013 · A monumental project begun in 1991 by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, in collaboration with the Indonesian Society for the Performing Arts (Masyarakat Seni Pertunjukan Indonesia) to document the richness and variety of music within the country.
Jul 9, 2021 · As Baulch shows, the figure of the critical middle-class citizen associated with rock music endured in the post-New Order era and rose at times to unprecedented prominence, such as when Slank—perhaps Indonesia’s most popular band—supported the rock music fan Joko Widodo in his successful presidential campaign in 2014.
The music on offer covers the geographic span of Indonesia - from northern Sumatra in the west to Papua in the east, Kalimantan in the north to Sumba in the south - and originates in societies with disparate structures, cul tural practices, religious beliefs, histories, and positions within contemporary Indonesia.
