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Koplo or dangdut koplo is a subgenre of dangdut, Indonesian popular dance & folk music, that originated in East Java during the early 2000s. The genre gets its name from the slang term "koplo" which refers to a hallucinogenic drug that is sold cheaply in Indonesia.
As scholars note, dangdut is the most controversial genre regarding its relation to Indonesian Islamic morality, [13] and few popular music genres around the world are more focused on women's bodies than dangdut, [14] whose lyrics often portray women as sexual objects. [15] On the one side, within dangdut, a religious current (spiritual dangdut ...
Dangdut performance. Dangdut is a popular semitraditional music genre of Indonesia which is partly derived of Indian, Arabic, and Malay music in the late 1960s in Jakarta city. It consists of melodious and harmonical music with the main tabla as the percussion beat especially in the classical dangdut versions. It was originally an Indonesian ...
Rembang Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Rembang) is a regency (Indonesian: kabupaten) on the extreme northeast coast of Central Java Province, on the island of Java ...
Elvy Sukaesih (born 25 June 1951) is an Indonesian dangdut singer and actress who has been dubbed the Queen of Dangdut. [1] [2] [3] Sukaesih has a significant fan base in other Asian countries such as Japan. She has been a prolific recording artist since the late 1960s. [citation needed]
Gajah Mada (c. 1290 – c. 1364), also known as Jirnnodhara, [3] was a powerful military leader and mahapatih [Note 3] of the Javanese empire of Majapahit during the 14th century.
I Nyoman Renbang (1937–2001) was an Indonesian musician, composer, teacher and instrument maker.He is considered by many ethnomusicologists as one of the most influential Balinese musicians and composers of the twentieth century (along with I Nyoman Kaler, I Wayan Lotring, Gusti Putu Madia Geria, I Wayan Suweca and I Wayan Berata).
Kroncong (pronounced "kronchong"; Indonesian: Keroncong, Dutch: Krontjong) is the name of a ukulele-like instrument and an Indonesian musical style that typically makes use of the kroncong (the sound Crong-crong-crong comes from this instrument, so the music is called kroncong).