48 research outputs found
Jaap Kunst Legacies: A Site of Forgetting, Remembering and History-Making
ABSTRACT The study interrogate and reconfigure the project of disclosing the heritage of ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst. Jaap Kunst recorded a lot of Indonesian music while living in Indonesia from 1919-1934. The teaching material and the development of ethnomusicology concepts as knowledge based on the sound record and his research experience. Now, after nearly 100 years, the Musicology Department of University van Amsterdam is initiating the opening of the Jaap Kunst legacy that has not yet been published. Because this heritage is related to Indonesia's cultural history and memory, University van Amsterdam collaborates with academics from Indonesia and trying to find support from the Indonesian government.  This study introduces philosophical approaches to reflection: critical, hermeneutic, and finally phenomenological. Reveal the dynamic relationship between Jaap Kunst legacies as a historical artifact and a site of forgetting, remembering, and history-making. How were the memory and identity stored in the Jaap Kunst materials reinterpreted in the postcolonial era? How is ethnomusicology addressing this matter related to shaping the colonial knowledge into the various subject positions? This paper is discussed with a retrospective approach in which individuals are sampled and information is collected about their past. Through interviews in some participants are asked to recall important events, or by identifying relevant administrative data to fill in information on past events and circumstances. With that method I assumed that tracking down Kunst's legacy was like taking a vacation at grandma's house, bringing back all the memories but not necessarily related to the present.  ABSTRAK Tulisan ini menginterogasi dan mengonfigurasi ulang proyek pembukaan warisan etnomusikolog yang Bernama Jaap Kunst. Jaap Kunst merekam banyak musik Indonesia selama tinggal di Indonesia dari tahun 1919-1934 dan menjadikan sebagai bahan ajar serta pengembangan konsep etnomusikologi sebagai ilmu pengetahuan berdasar rekaman suara dan pengalaman penelitiannya. Kini, setelah hampir 100 tahun, Departemen Musikologi Universitas Amsterdam memprakarsai pembukaan warisan Jaap Kunst yang belum sempat dipublikasikan. Warisan ini terkait dengan sejarah dan ingatan budaya Indonesia, Universitas Van Amsterdam bekerja sama dengan akademisi dari Indonesia dan berusaha mencari dukungan dari pemerintah Indonesia. Tulisan ini memperkenalkan pendekatan filosofis untuk refleksi: kritis, hermeneutik, serta fenomenologis. Mengungkapkan hubungan dinamis antara warisan Jaap Kunst sebagai artefak sejarah dan situs melupakan, mengingat, dan membuat sejarah. Bagaimana ingatan dan identitas yang tersimpan dalam materi Jaap Kunst diinterpretasikan ulang di era pascakolonial? Bagaimana etnomusikologi menyikapi hal ini terkait dengan pembentukan pengetahuan kolonial ke dalam berbagai posisi subjek? Pembahasan dalam tulisan ini menggunakan pendekatan retrospektif di mana individu diambil sampelnya dan dikumpulkan informasi tentang masa lalunya. Melalui wawancara beberapa partisipan diminta untuk mengingat kembali peristiwa-peristiwa penting, atau dengan mengidentifikasi data administrasi yang relevan untuk mengisi informasi tentang peristiwa dan keadaan masa lalu. Dengan cara itu dapat diasumsikan menelusuri peninggalan Kunst seperti berlibur ke rumah nenek, membawa kembali semua kenangan tapi tidak harus terkait dengan masa kini
'Ora Minggir Tabrak' Electronic Dance Music (EDM), a Montage of The Time-Image
Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is a music genre which has been perceived in negative way because closely related to night life in which alcoholic drinks and illegal drugs. The beatings of the rhythm presented can arouse a desire to shake the body, giving instant pleasure to escape from the weariness of life. Although it could be said that this music genre is able to help the listeners to forget “the problems” of life, however, it is very rarely that the academic circle looked into this music genre and make it as a subject of interesting studies. This article is written out of subjective observations in social sphere on subjects containing a lot of secrecies and initially considered as a taboo to be discussed. The existence of EDM in line with the technological developments as montage of the time-image related with complexity of social relations, attempting to embark on a new identity in power, politics, and ideological trappings. The phenomenon comes into sight specifically in the song of “Ora Minggir Tabrak”,literally means if you get on my way I will hit you, a soundtrack of Ada Apa Dengan Cinta 2feature film. And it obviously could be seen in talent hunting for EDM musicians program broadcast by Net TV (the ReMix), and several other big events with internationally standard organized annually, such as DWP (Djakarta Warehouse Project); and Dreamfield at GWK Bali, which are worth-discussing amidst the hustle and bustle of music market in Indonesia
SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT NGAYOGJAZZ SEBAGAI FESTIVAL MUSIK DI YOGYAKARTA
This study aims to find out 1). How social media engagement is present in Ngayogjazz as a music festival in Yogyakarta. 2). How Social media plays a role in portraying the Ngayogjazz festival. To achieve the objectives of the study, qualitative research methods were used with a virtual ethnographic approach from Christine Hine where Social media was chosen as the locus of research. Social media theory is used as a foundation in framing thoughts and discussions.Data collection techniques are carried out in two ways, namely observing Ngayogjazz's activities on Social media and conducting interviews to confirm some data found directly with several sources directly related to this event. In addition, existing literature and documentation data are also used as references in describing and analyzing Ngayogjazz events in Social media.The results of this study show that Social media that is present in Ngayogjazz as a music festival in Yogyakarta, using four platforms, namely Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube shows a binding interaction between Ngayogjazz as a festival and the community at large. Ngayogjazz utilizes Social media as one of the strategies in branding itself as a music festival whose presence is taken into account in the country, improvisation and musical interaction that characterize jazz
Goyang Karawang: Exploration of Woman's Body Between Rites and Fiesta
This study will discuss about Goyang Karawang, which always brings eroticism of woman's body in every show. Eroticism presented through swaying hips is inseparable from the history that surrounds. The changing Karawang district (32 miles of Jakarta, Indonesia) from agriculture to industrial making the culture in this area transformed. In agriculture period, which is almost the entire population of Karawang as a farmer known as Bajidoran, is used as a fertility rite to celebrate the harvest. Swaying hips of the dancers in Bajidoran later evolved into the cultural identity of the region and then known as Goyang Karawang. In 90's Goyang Karawang was also known as a dangdut song title that described the condition of the culture. Karawang has been turned into industrial city. Bajidoran was adapted to era and is popularly known as Goyang Karawang who peddles female's body as commodity with many text weaving. Goyang Karawang: Exploring of Woman's Body between Rites and Fiesta is a simple article about the cultural phenomena that occurred in Karawang. Goyang Karawang existence as a cultural text cannot be separated from the study of music, history, social, gender, etc., so in the process of research and writing would be in Cultural Studies for weaving the texts which are presented. Ethnography is selected as the method of data collection, considering that this method can describe with deep cultural events.Penelitian ini akan membahas mengenai Goyang Karawang yang selalu menghadirkan erotisme tubuh perempuan dalam setiap pertunjukannya. Erotisme yang dihadirkan melalui goyangan badan tidak terlepas dari sejarah yang melingkupi. Perubahan kota dari agraris menuju industri membuat kesenian yang ada di wilayah Karawang berubah bentuk. Pada masa agraris, masa dimana hampir seluruh penduduk Karawang bermata pencarian sebagai petani dikenal kesenian Bajidoran yang digunakan sebagai ritus kesuburan dalam merayakan masa panen. Goyang penari dalam Bajidoran kemudian berkembang seiring waktu dan menjadi identitas wilayah yang kemudian dipopulerkan lewat lagu Dangdut Goyang Karawang. Kini Karawang telah berubah menjadi kota Industri, sehingga Bajidoran beradaptasi dengan jaman dan kini populer dengan Goyang Karawang yang menjajakan tubuh perempuan sebagai komoditas dengan bermacam teks yang tejalin. Goyang Karawang: Penjelajahan Tubuh Perempuan diantara Ritus dan Fiesta merupakan tulisan sederhanamengenai fenomena budaya yang terjadi di Kota Karawang. Keberadaan Goyang Karawang sebagai sebuah teks budaya tidak dapat dipisahkan dari kajian musik, sejarah, gender, sosial sehingga dalam proses penelitan dan penulisan akan digunakan Cultural Studies dalam menenun teks-teks yanghadir. Metode etnografi dipilih sebagai metode dalam proses pencarian data, mengingat metode ini dapat menggambarkan peristiwa budaya dengan mendalam
KERONCONG BIRU DALAM PERTUNJUKAN VIRTUAL DI PLATFORM YOUTUBE
Keroncong Biru adalah kelompok Keroncong yang berasal dari Hargobinangun, Pakem, Sleman, Yogyakarta sejak tahun 2016. Ia adalah pemuda Katolik St. Maria Assumpta Pakem. Tujuan Keroncong Biru adalah menjadi musik pengiring gereja untuk melestarikan dan memperkenalkan musik keroncong kepada generasi muda; dan memperkenalkan komunitas keroncong di Yogyakarta kepada dunia melalui Community, Scene, Tribe, Subculture, Audience, dan Consumer. Keroncong Biru mengemas musik populer ke dalam keroncong. Situasi pandemi mau tidak mau membuat grup ini tampil live (offline) yang dihadiri penonton, namun berubah menjadi virtual performance. Penelitian ini menganalisis aktivitas Keroncong Biru dalam situasi pandemi dengan menggunakan metode etnografi. Makalah ini menggambarkan alam semesta maya sebagai ruang belajar
Ritual Usaba Sambah: Sebuah Babak Dalam Kehidupan Masyarakat Tenganan Pegringsingan, Bali
Ritual Usaba Sambah merupakan sebuah babak dalam kehidupan masyarakat Tenganan Pegringsingan. Sebagai sebuah aktivitas budaya Usaba Sambah mengusung sebuah narasi mengenai kehidupan dewa yang memasuki usia dewasa. Sejumlah kegiatan dihadirkan selama sebulan penuh dalam setiap tahunnya. Pendeklarasian kedewasaan divisualisasikan dengan merangkai simbol-simbol mitologi. Simbol inilah yang pada akhirnya memproduksi makna bagi masyarakat Tenganan Pegringsingan juga masyarakat luar yang menjadi penonton.
Performance studies digunakan sebagai payung dalam mengkaji aktivitas masyarakat Tenganan Pegringsingan yang ditampilkan. Untuk menafsirkan penampilan, perlu diketahui latar belakang masyarakat yang terlibat, baik mengenai sejarah dan budaya, serta setting penampilan yang dibatasi pada konteksruang, budaya, dan sosial.
Serangkaian kegiatan Usaba Sambah yang ditampilkan dideskripsikan secara mendalam, dengan metode etnografi. Rentetan adegan tertata dengan sangat menarik dalam Usaba Sambah. Kehidupan ritual di Tenganan Pegringsingan dapat diibaratkan sebuah drama kehidupan. Setiap ritual memiliki kisah, seperti babak dalam sebuah drama. Babak demi babak ditampilkan setiap sasih. Sasih Kasa hingga Sadda menggambarkan kehidupan dewa. Dimulai dari lahir hingga mat
Goyang Karawang: Exploration of Woman’s Body between Rites and Fiesta
Penelitian ini akan membahas mengenai Goyang Karawang yang selalu menghadirkan erotisme
tubuh perempuan dalam setiap pertunjukannya. Erotisme yang dihadirkan melalui goyangan badan
tidak terlepas dari sejarah yang melingkupi. Perubahan kota dari agraris menuju industri membuat
kesenian yang ada di wilayah Karawang berubah bentuk. Pada masa agraris, masa dimana hampir
seluruh penduduk Karawang bermata pencarian sebagai petani dikenal kesenian Bajidoran yang
digunakan sebagai ritus kesuburan dalam merayakan masa panen. Goyang penari dalam Bajidoran
kemudian berkembang seiring waktu dan menjadi identitas wilayah yang kemudian dipopulerkan
lewat lagu Dangdut Goyang Karawang. Kini Karawang telah berubah menjadi kota Industri,
sehingga Bajidoran beradaptasi dengan jaman dan kini populer dengan Goyang Karawang yang
menjajakan tubuh perempuan sebagai komoditas dengan bermacam teks yang tejalin. Goyang
Karawang: Penjelajahan Tubuh Perempuan diantara Ritus dan Fiesta merupakan tulisan sederhana
mengenai fenomena budaya yang terjadi di Kota Karawang. Keberadaan Goyang Karawang sebagai
sebuah teks budaya tidak dapat dipisahkan dari kajian musik, sejarah, gender, sosial sehingga dalam
proses penelitan dan penulisan akan digunakan Cultural Studies dalam menenun teks-teks yang
hadir. Metode etnografi dipilih sebagai metode dalam proses pencarian data, mengingat metode ini
dapat menggambarkan peristiwa budaya dengan mendalam.
Goyang Karawang, Tubuh Perempuan, Dangdu
Banned and Re Presented: Music in the Timeline of Indonesian Politics
ABSTRACT
This paper discusses the journey of music in the timeline of Indonesian Politics, start
from 1945 (Independence Day) up to now with interdisciplinary approach. At the be-
ginning of the Soekarno’s Old Order (1945-1968) forbade Western-style music (Beatles)
played in Indonesia and even had imprisoned some musicians who expressed the
western style. When the Suharto’s New Order ruled the roost, the musicians as well as
artists who got a place in the Old Order were forbidden even some to be political pris-
oners. Yet, many new musicians have sprung up and as a result popular music had a
glorious time around the 80-90's. Dangdut music was success and successfully re-
garded as “music of the people”. Rhoma Irama, known as the king of Dangdut, offers
the song with the lyrics of the body discipline in the Islamic ideology. In addition to
“music of the people”, the peripheral music that voiced criticism of the government
also thrived in the New Order, and always received tight control by the military in every
stage action.
The fall of the Suharto’s regime and the chaotic politics in Indonesia influenced the
trend of music in Indonesia. Songs with the theme of infidelity and distrust of couples
present coloured the popular music industry at that time. Now in the Jokowi’s Era
(2014) many popular musicians began to express their aspirations not only through
music but also the political stage. Be the question then how are music industries re-
sponse politic system and market in Indonesia? The phenomenon of the political world
in Indonesia that develops along with the life of music will be described in depth in this
paper.
Keywords:Music, Politics, Indonesia, Regim
Song of Marginalized Women Colloquium Muziekwetenschap Universiteit van Amsterdam
This study will discuss the Dangdut Karawang which always brings eroticism of female's body in every show. Eroticism presented through swaying hips is inseparable from the history that surrounds. The changing Karawang district (32 miles of Jakarta, Indonesia) from agriculture to industrial make the culture in this area transformed.
This paper entitled The Song of Marginalized Women is a simple description of the social conditions on Karawang district which using dangdut as women's bodies commodification in order to serve the male sexual fantasies. On the other side Dangdut Karawang has actually become a public media to express their sexual desires in the eastern zone of cultural modesty integral to the identity of the territory exalted.
The Dangdut singer as victims of the patriarchal system to serve the needs of male sexual or economic commodity in the music industry are created. But on the other hand, these women as subjects who have the power through the appearance and actions. Therefore, dangdut performances have explanation is far more complicated than capitalism and the dominance of gender inequalities for singers. By understanding the performance of Dangdut Karawang, we could see woman singer as the subject, we will also be able to understand much more interesting explanation about the dynamics of social class and gender relations
Festivalisasi Jazz di Indonesia: Dari Panggung Menuju Peristiwa
Tulisan ini membahas tentang fenomena festival “Jazz” di Indonesia yang masif dan disebarluaskan dengan lebih dari enam puluh Festival Jazz diadakan setiap tahunnya. Festivalisasi “Jazz” hadir sebagai fenomena budaya yang menunjukkan relasi antara musik Jazz sebagai budaya global dan produk budaya lokal yang terkait dengan identitas dan gaya hidup. Musik jazz di Indonesia tidak lepas dari kehadirannya pada masa penjajahan Belanda di awal abad ke-20. Artis dari Filipina juga berperan besar dalam memperkenalkan Jazz di Indonesia. Mereka diundang atau datang secara sukarela ke Jakarta dan Bandung untuk bermain jazz di acara-acara atau tempat-tempat umum seperti hotel. Itu sebabnya musik "Jazz" di Indonesia membawa stigma musik borjuis. Pada tahun 1980-an Jazz muncul di beberapa program TV dan radio nasional, yang menjadikan Jazz sebagai genre musik yang lebih dikenal khalayak/publik. Saat ini Jazz telah berbaur, dan mulai memasuki kehidupan desa, termasuk festival. Karena “Jazz” dianggap “kelas tinggi”, melebihi mata pencaharian pedesaan, acara musik yang menampilkan diri mereka sebagai acara “Jazz” dianggap menarik dan seksi, memungkinkan terbentuknya pembedaan kelas, juga di pedesaan. Dalam konteks ini, Jazz dikomodifikasi melalui festival-festival untuk berbagai kepentingan, terutama pengembangan pariwisata.
Dengan demikian, festivalisasi menembus batas-batas kelas sosial. Jazz adalah sarana ekspresi dan artikulasi identitas yang kuat, tidak hanya di panggung dan ruang yang dulu disediakan untuk penggemar jazz, tetapi di ruang baru di masyarakat.
Kata Kunci: Jazz, Festivalisation, Music, Stage, Event
Abstract
This paper discusses the phenomenon of "Jazz" festivals in Indonesia that is both massive and widely disseminated with more than sixty Jazz Festivals held each year. Festivalisation of "Jazz" comes as a cultural phenomenon that shows the relation between Jazz music as global culture and local cultural products related to identity and lifestyle. Jazz in Indonesia cannot be separated from its presence during the colonial Dutch era in the early twentieth century. Artists from the Philippines also played a major role in introducing Jazz in Indonesia. They were either invited or came voluntarily to Jakarta and Bandung to play jazz in functions or public places such as hotels. That’s why "Jazz" music in Indonesia carries a stigma of bourgeois music. In the 1980s Jazz appeared in some national TV programs and radio, which made Jazz as a music genre known to a larger audience/public. By this time Jazz had mingled with, and began to enter village life, including festivals. Since “Jazz” is considered “high class”, exceeding rural livelihoods, music events that present themselves as “Jazz” events are considered to be catchy and sexy, enabling a form a class distinction, also in villages. In this context, Jazz gets commodified through festivals for various purposes, especially the development of tourism.
Thus, festivalisation penetrates the boundaries of social classes. Jazz is a powerful means of expression and identity articulation, not only on stages and spaces that were formerly reserved for jazz enthusiasts, but in new spaces in society.
Keywords: Jazz, Festivalisation, Music, Stage, Even