Aesthetics Migration of Sundanese Primodial Symbols in Bandung Subculture
- Keywords
- Aesthetics, Sunda, Rancière
- Abstract
Sundanese primordial symbols, although visually difficult to find, actually still inherent in the values of contemporary Sundanese life. Kujang is one of the symbols that has valuable variety of beautiful forms, and still survive until now. Kujang preservation also maintained by the Sundanese who consistently use it as a symbol for almost anything. The youth in Bandung underground music scene often use it as the band symbol or cover album artwork—the album Rebirth of Jatisunda of Jasad Band. The underground music scene is a subculture that gives birth to new values including aesthetic. The most interesting is the paradox within the album cover artwork that combines Western and Sundanese aesthetic concepts as one. This refers to Jacques Rancière’s aesthetic migration as an attempt to cross the hierarchy without rejecting it but rather attempting to traverse these cultures. We will see 'political' and 'aesthetical' concepts breaking down an established and primordial aesthetical regime into a more contemporary. This qualitative research uses the theory of Rancière to see how important the 'political' and 'aesthetic' processes in the symbolic migration, especially the primodial aesthetic symbols that have the highest esteem in Sundanese society into the same yet more renew aesthetical discourse
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Novian Nugraha AU - Lingga Agung PY - 2019/07 DA - 2019/07 TI - Aesthetics Migration of Sundanese Primodial Symbols in Bandung Subculture BT - Proceedings of the 5th Bandung Creative Movement International Conference on Creative Industries 2018 (5th BCM 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 355 EP - 360 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125910955 ID - Nugraha2019/07 ER -