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  Dangdut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dangdut is a genre of Indonesian popular music which is partly derived from Arab, Indian, and Malay folk music.
A dangdut band usually consists of a lead singer backed by a band of four to eight musicians.
The concerts of major dangdut stars are also broadcast on television; in 2003 singer Inul Daratista became the subject of much controversy and criticism from conservatives over her suggestive style of dancing (erotic dance) during televised shows.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dangdut   (259 words)

  
 Music of Indonesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Early in the 20th century, kroncong was used in a type of theater called komedi stanbul; adapted for this purpose, the music was called gambang kromong.
Dangdut is a form of dance music that has been popular since the mid-1970s.
Dangdut is based around the singers, and stars include Rhoma Irama and Elvy Sukaesih (the King and Queen of Dangdut), along with Inul Daratista, Evie Tamala, Mansyur S, A.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Indonesia   (1323 words)

  
 a-musik: mailorder, distribution, recordshop, label
from the late '60s, her career developed alongside dangdut, the deeply funky local street music, that emerged from 1950s orkes melayu (orchestras) and blended various foreign music including arabic, indian and western rock with indonesian instruments such as suling (flute) and gendang (tabla shaped drums).
elvy was the undisputed 'queen of dangdut' during the music's golden age in the mid 1970s to '80s, before (arguably) the raw energy and blistering musicianship got drowned out by drum machines and synthesizers.
born into a musical family in jakarta in 1951, elvy sukaesih was at the forefront of establishing the genre called dangdut from the late 1960s.
www.a-musik.com /cart/catalog.php?label=2831&am_id=1a4fd58cf54c67b03ceec84e59d9254d   (268 words)

  
 Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
More to the point, perhaps, dangdut lyrics voice the frustrations of a generation of young people grappling with moral issues and life in an economy that is yet to overcome the catastrophic Asian meltdown of the late 1990s.
Dangdut's wide audiences owes to the fact that it is a heady mix of many strains.
Dangdut has the potential of becoming the dance music of the East, like Salsa or Lambada and this is what the legislators should consider, says Inul.
www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=33152   (945 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Music of Indonesia
Dangdut is based around the singers, and stars include Rhoma Irama and Elvy Sukaesih (the King and Queen of Dangdut), along with Inul Daratista, Evie Tamala, Mansyur S, A. Rafiq, Dewi Yull and Fahmy Shahab.
Rhoma Irama (born December 11, 1946 in Tasikmalaya, West Java) is an Indonesian dangdut singer.
Inul Daratista (born 3 January 1979) is a dangdut singer and performance artist from Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-Indonesia   (4091 words)

  
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Dangdut lyrics are no longer just laments, and its singers are no longer 'second-class singers'—they now own cars and houses.
Dangdut has become increasingly glamorous and increasingly acceptable to the government in the years since Tempo observed this trend.
But since the topic of social commentary was raised in the notes, in connection with dangdut, we should point out that at the same time that the incidence of social protest in dangdut has decreased, it has become more common in the songs of some non-dangdut singers popular with the youth audience.
www.folkways.si.edu /projects_initiatives/indonesian/liner_notes/volume02.html   (632 words)

  
 Lockard: Rhoma Irama
Dangdut emerged from the cultural melting pot of Jakarta, a city sometimes compared to the spicy Indonesian salad gado gado because of its assimilation and intermingling of peoples and ideas arriving from outside.
One cabinet minister characterized dangdut as "caterwauling"; another detractor called it "dog crap music." These attitudes among high officials resulted in most of Rhoma's songs and films being banned from government radio and television for a decade beginning in the late 1970s; he was also prohibited from performing live shows in Jakarta.
And some officials praised dangdut as "part of our developing culture" and "the lawful owner of the republic." This suggests a certain co-optation, but also a realization that dangdut would not wither away; it had become a longterm, increasingly sophisticated part of Indonesian life.
www.utoronto.ca /jkcourses/Islam/Readings/Craig_Lockard.html   (3989 words)

  
 Macam-Macam: Dangdut!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For those of you not familiar with dangdut, it's probably Indonesia's most popular genre of music, with infectious, syncopated grooves and lyrics that focus on simple, rustic topics like family, love and the like.
The typical dangdut band setup will have electric guitars, a drum kit and keyboard matched with kendang drums (similar to an Indian tabla) with suling (bamboo flute) and mandolin often thrown in as well.
Dangdut is fun to dance to but does have its limits.
www.theswanker.com /macammacam/2006/01/dangdut.html   (575 words)

  
 Help - TCB-World
********************Dangdut Bule is een initiatief van zanger Haroen Berghuis en bassist Marc Doornweerd.
Dangdut is recognisable music even for crossing the the boundries of the Indonesian isles.
Dangdut Bale (which means as mush as: palednose dangdut) took over the essence of Indonesian dangdut, but at the same has a style of it's own.
www.tcb-world.com /showthread.php?t=2299   (864 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Inul DaratistaDaratista
The Alliance for Anti-Pornography Society classifies Inul’s drilling into one that is pornographic and “throwing dangdut music into the mud, tearing apart the nation's social fabric and encouraging illicit sex and rape." But Inul still survives and never gives up.
She has become so popular and such a highly appreciated woman for becoming the most exciting dangdut singer and dancer in history.
If I were her, I'd like to show my special dance and dangdut music throughout the world.
myhero.com /myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=Daratista   (603 words)

  
 Human Trash & Dangdut Singers - Indonesia Matters
The Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, are concerned about the problem of human refuse in the city of Depok, specifically dangdut dancers and singers such as Inul Daratista.
He added that Depok is a devoutly religious city and could not be befouled by the presence of sexy singers and dancers, swaying and jiggling around to the sound of dangdut music, a type of Indonesian popular music which is a mix from Arab, Indian, and Malay folk music.
This is very sad, even if Inul did something wrong, she didn’t deserve to be called ’scum of the earth’ that is just harsh.
www.indonesiamatters.com /297/human-trash-dangdut-singers   (389 words)

  
 Maryam Mustafa - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Mustafa is a popular Dangdut artist, this being a highly danceable mix of indian drumming, electric guitars, and melodramatic lyrics.
Dangdut can often be a moralistic, almost political, form of music, and it speaks very much to the poorer Muslim men and women of Indonesia, who are also its biggest fans.
Dangdut has been compared to Indian film music, and indeed it has spawned its own film..
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,550792,00.html   (208 words)

  
 Freemuse: Indonesia: Inul Daratista has overcome censorship
Dangdut is a very popular Indonesian music genre derived from Indian, Arab and Malay styles, but it often incorporates a variety of other world influences as well.
Dangdut has long been ripe with sexual innuendos and suggestiveness, but “Inul’s physical portrayal of the words and their meaning was something never attempted by those who came before her” (Jakarta Eye, “Dangdut Comes of Age-Sex and the Village”).
In the 1970s and 1980s, Rhoma Irama popularized dangdut, tamed its sexual attitude, and began to use it to spread the message of Islam – collectively making it fit for mass commercial appeal.
www.freemuse.org /sw11740.asp   (1188 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news - Indonesian Dancer, clerics go toe-to-toe
During president Suharto's 32-year dictatorship, dangdut was fully appropriated and manipulated by the government.
In fact, Inul had really returned dangdut back to its village roots, asserting its home-grown robustness, expressing the hopes and fears of the country's poor and downtrodden.
Simply put, dangdut is the music of the poor and Inul is their gutsy gal.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/HF21Ae01.html   (1178 words)

  
 AsiaMedia :: Inul Daratista: Getting to the bottom of the pornography bill
Three years ago her name was eclipsing those of politicians and sports stars, nation-builders and demolishers, corruptors and crusaders.
Dangdut is the throbbing, jangling, mystic mix of Indian, Arab and Malay music that's inseparable from kampong life.
Former president Soeharto is said to have had the coarse lyrics and crude sexuality cleaned up; he made dangdut the medium for messages on morality and national development.
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=47105   (1189 words)

  
 Global Vision News Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In Aceh at the far northwest tip of the archipelago, where a ceasefire between separatists and the government teeters on the brink of collapse, economic and environmental concerns over oil and gas drilling combine with interpretations of Islam to create volatile, divisive passions that threaten national unity.
She traded her ambitions as a rock star for dangdut, Indonesia's popular folk music that mixes Indian, Middle Eastern, Malay and Portuguese rhythms with other influences ranging from jazz to Led Zeppelin.
He further accused Inul of "throwing dangdut music into the mud, tearing apart the nation's social fabric and encouraging illicit sex and rape".
www.gvnews.net /html/DailyNews/alert4351.html   (1126 words)

  
 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Dangdut music and dance in Singapore and all about Home
Dangdut music and dance in Singapore and all about Home
The blogger at licencetospill took some of her friends to a Dangdut club.
Dangdut is a form of music from Indonesia.
www.globalvoicesonline.org /2006/03/29/dangdut-music-and-dance-in-singapore-and-all-about-home   (800 words)

  
 Fairy's MyIndo.com: Project Pop Makes Dangdut Hip!
Some folks are fast to give dangdut music a turn of the nose because the music is usually considered old-fashioned, kampungan and un-cool; furthermore it is supposedly the music of the lower social class bracket.
Dangdut is originally from Indonesia and has spread to neighboring countries such as Malaysia and some parts of the Philippines.
The word "dangdut" is thought to have originated from the dang-dang-dut-dut sound that comes from the Indian drum tabla which gives the music its heartbeat.
fairy.mahdzan.com /story/198.asp   (2550 words)

  
 Dangdut trendy - Inside Indonesia 78
The techno-hybrid grooves of ethnic house music and dangdut trendy are assembled from a bewildering array of musical genres: sampled snippets of African American slang, bits of Hollywood movie dialogue, rhythmic patterned shouts (senggak) reminiscent of West Javanese traditional music, and hip hop drum loops.
Since dangdut is itself a combination of Indian film song, Western hard rock, disco and Arabic pop (among other things) and regional pop is already a blend of Western pop and indigenous musical elements, the new dance music styles are essentially hybrids of hybrids.
In Indonesia, where the tendency to romanticise ‘traditional culture’ is strong among both national elites and Western observers, the techno-hybrid grooves of ethnic house music are a powerful antidote to the widespread notion that the rakyat kecil, the so-called ‘little people’, are somehow less ‘modern’ than those in the dominant class.
www.insideindonesia.org /edit78/p30_wallach.html   (713 words)

  
 dtempest's Xanga Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
so the same boy who came up with a dangdut song during one of the jinggle activity I conducted, managed to convince his innocent friend that Geylang is named as such because the place has a lot of gays.
Nonetheless, the dangdut boy got a speech from me because in the first place the composition title has got nothing to do with Geylang and that he was disturbing other people's concentration.
So, innocent boy was told by the teacher that dangdut's boy explanation is NOT true and that he should stop talking to dangdut boy.
www.xanga.com /dtempest   (1204 words)

  
 Rhoma Irama & Dangdut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Musisi yang satu ini menjadi istimewa karena berhasil memadukan irama dangdut dan rock, serta memasukkan nuansa dakwah secara proporsional sehingga di tangannya dangdut menampilkan nuansa nyantri.
Usaha jerih payah para aktivis musik dangdut itu memang tidak sia-sia.
Sebelumnya, seorang artis dangdut yang sedang menanjak, Kristina, pernah pula mengemukakan keprihatinannya terhadap gaya Inul, dalam bahasa yang lebih sederhana.
www.pikiran-rakyat.com /cetak/0403/29/02.htm   (679 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Music Of Indonesia 2: Indonesian Popular Music - Krongcong, Dangdut & Langgam Jawa: Music: Various Artists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kroncong and dangdut are two quite different Indonesian popular music genres that emerged in the capital city, Jakarta.
Dangdut has become a dance music, reaching across class to the male youth audience.
while the dangdut music has developed and blended into contemporary music such as disco-dangdut or even techno dangdut we could always look back to the past and listen to these "original", warm, dangdut beat from the dangdut king himself.
www.amazon.com /Music-Indonesia-Indonesian-Krongcong-Dangdut/dp/B000001DIS   (794 words)

  
 MTVAsia.com - MTV Salam Dangdut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To capture the essence of Dangdut, the show is hosted from a mock disco Dangdut set, complete with with flashing disco lights.
On each episode VJ Arie gets in touch with the fans of Dangdut by reading their letters and gives us information on the lives and music of the biggest Dangdut stars around.
If you are a Dangdut fan or someone who never really gave Dangdut a listen -- MTV Salam Dangdut will get you saying "asik".
www.mtvasia.com /Onair/Shows/SalamDangdut   (125 words)

  
 Elvy Sukaesih: The Dangdut Queen - PopMatters Music Review
The Dangdut Queen is being released in Europe thanks to a partnership between Paul Fisher, who is based in the UK, and Katsunori Tanaka, the founder of Rice Records in Japan.
A newcomer to dangdut might wonder what the fuss is about, particularly if they’ve been listening to Bollywood songs, which dangdut resembles to the extent that Indonesian musicians sometimes take Bolly tunes, add Bahasa Indonesia lyrics, and then release them as if they were new compositions.
The songs are bright and fun and Sukaesih sings with enormous charm, but her voice doesn’t have the inimitable character of an Asha.
www.popmatters.com /pm/music/reviews/elvy-sukaesih-the-dangdut-queen   (740 words)

  
 Indonesian Night 2004 - the Majestic Archipelago
Dangdut an onomatopoeic word pronounced as "Dang-dut!" is a very popular genre of music in Indonesia.
Dangdut has it roots from Indian, Melayu, and Arabic music.
Ex-pressed in motion, the Dangdut Fusion incorporates modern and traditional dance elements to bring out the essence of dangdut.
www.permiasmass.org /indonight2004   (553 words)

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