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Music of Minang is a traditional and contemporary ethnic variety of Indonesian music that grows and develops in the Minangkabau culture. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Music is generally played by musical instruments such as talempong , saluang , Minang rabab , serunai, rebana , aguang ( gong ), gandang , gambus , and violin .
Traditional Minangkabau music includes saluang jo dendang, which consists of singing to the accompaniment of a saluang bamboo flute and talempong gong-chime music. Dances include the tari piring (plate dance), tari payung (umbrella dance), tari indang (also known as endang or badindin ), and tari pasambahan .
This custom is called Lareh Bodi-Caniago and is known as adat perpatih in Malaysia. Today 4.2 million Minangs live in the homeland of West Sumatra. As one of the world's most populous (as well as politically and economically influential) matrilineal ethnicities, Minangkabau gender dynamics have been extensively studied by anthropologists.
Musician playing saluang. The saluang is a traditional musical instrument of the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, Indonesia.It is similar to the ney in general, in that it is an oblique flute, but made of bamboo.
In the Minangkabau area silat is one of the main components in the men's folk dance called randai, [19] besides bakaba (storytelling) and saluang jo dendang (song-and-flute). The music played during silat performances is known as gendang baku in the Malay Peninsula, and gendang pencha among the Sunda people of West Java.
The music in Indonesia predates historical records, various Native Indonesian tribes often incorporate chants and songs accompanied with musical instruments in their rituals. The contemporary music of Indonesia today is also popular amongst neighbouring countries, such as Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. [2]
Orkes Gumarang (English: Gumarang Band) was a pioneering group in the Indonesian music industry active from the 1950s until the 1970s. The musicians were Minangkabau people, from West Sumatra, but recorded their music in Jakarta, far from their cultural heartland.
Kroncong music began in the 16th century when sailors from the Portuguese Empire brought Portuguese instruments and music to Indonesia. Lower-class citizens and gangs, commonly called buaya (a reference to buaya darat, a term for playboys literally meaning "crocodile on land") adopted the new musical styles. Eventually, they were assimilated by ...