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The musical identity of Indonesia as we know it today began as the Bronze Age culture migrated to the Indonesian archipelago in the 2nd-3rd century BC. [6] Traditional musics of Indonesian tribes often uses percussion instruments, especially gongs and gendang ( drums ).
May 28, 2013 · Tracing the history of Indonesian art music in tandem with the historical discourse about the search for an Indonesian national identity, the author argues that contemporary art music (musik kontemporer) is best suited to be the national music of Indonesia.
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.
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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...
Mar 17, 2015 · The origins of dangdut lies in orkes melayu (orchestras) especially encouraged by Sukarno to cultivate national identity in the wake of independence, who would play latin and jazz music adding an Indonesian taste and later Arabic and Indian film music.
With the collaboration of the Ford Foundation and MSPI, Philip Yampolsky has achieved a monumental masterpiece: an anthology of the traditional music of Indonesia at the end of the 20th century. Field recordings were carried out between 1990 and 1997 in twenty-two provinces, and twenty compact discs were published in ten years.
May 8, 2017 · 1. Keroncong. Keroncong is one of the traditional music that were developed in Indonesia since the Portuguese colonial era. At that time, the colonial brought the instrument of European music which then combined with the traditional musical instruments of Indonesia and resulted in keroncong music.
