Street-Style Siter Playing and Regional Urban Identity

Yıl 2020, Cilt: 3 Sayı: 2, 244 - 261, 01.10.2020

Rohan Iyer

Öz

This is a study of Central Javanese street-style siteran music (ensemble formed
around a central zither) performed by ngamen (buskers). I transcribe
and analyse an excerpt of an interpretation of a classic piece of Central Javanese
art music to illustrate the musical differences between gamelan siter
playing and street-style siter playing. I then discuss how musical specificities
of, and repertoire choice by, ngamen are connected to issues of urbanisation
and regionalisation in Central Java. This study demonstrates how
gamelan musicians and ngamen operate within different interpretative frameworks
based on performance context. I argue that this results in an
inexhaustible variety of music making outside gamelan circles where ngamen
are allowed to express their regionalised urban musical identity. This
paper contributes to the scholarship on a genre of Central Javanese music
marginalised by the gamelan, by using techniques of transcription and
analysis to address pertinent sociocultural topics.

Kaynakça

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