Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts Language and Culture (ICALC 2019)

Mortar Music Tradition as the Javanese Agrarian Folklore in Magetan, Indonesia

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Dea Lunny Primamona
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Dea Lunny Primamona
Available Online 25 March 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200323.004How to use a DOI?
Keywords
agrarian, folklore, lesung, morta, music
Abstract

Javanese is familiar with the rich folklore. In Magetan, East Java, Indonesia there is a music tradition that has a form of rhythm pattern from the pounding lesung (a kind of wooden mortar) and pestle. This study focuses on the music phenomena of oral tradition as a way to educate from the elder to younger people. This research uses qualitative interpretative as a method. Qualitative interpretative in this research understand the data from the local terminology and views contextual relationships among the art objects to the culture of society as an organic system. As a result, the mortar music tradition is Javanese agrarian folklore which exists for years. The tradition is contained in the value of fertility, the prominent character of agrarian culture. The society can keep the continuity of life through how they cultivate the land and how they do reproduction from the value of daily life and guides of life.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts Language and Culture (ICALC 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
25 March 2020
ISBN
978-94-6252-939-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200323.004How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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