Rethinking Cultural Study of Music Through Contemporary Music Activities in Indonesia Present Day

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10.2991/978-2-38476-212-5_3How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cultural study of music; contemporary music; creativity; articulation; music sociology; multiculturalism

Abstract

For at least the last six years (since 2016), several music activists in Yogyakarta who are members of the Art Music Today Foundation, have held an annual agenda entitled October Meeting Contemporary Music and Musicians. This agenda, although performing the works of composers like a festival, is more inclined as a creative laboratory and cultural interaction, where the participants—who come from various regions in Indonesia—always exchange relevant contextual ideas. The music compositions which are performed on the agenda, are only temporary activities, but the composers’ ideas, the social challenges they face, and how they treat their respective cultures and interact with them in the midst of global association, become a long-term task, and it is very interesting and dynamic to observe. Multiculturalism is also a key word that can be read from the works of these composers, which are full of local-traditional elements. This local-global interaction, supported by all the conveniences in network formation and actualization, is another point that is equally significant. This article asks, how does cultural study of music have a function to look at the dynamics of contemporary music in Indonesia? And why has this discipline received so little attention, compared to, for example, ethnomusicology or applied ethnomusicology? Tia DeNora’s views in After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology used as the basic concept for this research, supported by re-study on a book, Cultural Study of Music (edited by Clayton, etc.), as well as Stuart Hall’s, Grossberg’s, and Kortesoja’s views about the concept of articulation that discusses how ideas from various social formations interlock to find meaning. This research produces a map reading the concept of study and practices, and is expected to have a contribution to reviewing the importance of the discipline of cultural study of music, especially for studying contemporary music activities in Indonesia which are very plural and interesting.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Erie Setiawan
AU  - Widodo Aribowo
AU  - Mibtadin Mibtadin
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/02/12
TI  - Rethinking Cultural Study of Music Through Contemporary Music Activities in Indonesia Present Day
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Cultural Studies (ICCUS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 21
EP  - 33
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-212-5_3
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-212-5_3
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