Historical Relationship of Bollywood Music and Indonesian Dangdut (a form of popular Indonesian music)

Presentation by Andrew Weintraub, Associate Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ethnomusicology and popular music. Author of Power Plays: Awayng Golek Puppet Theater of West Java (Ohio University Press, 2004) and the coeditor of Music and Cultural Rights (University of Illinois Press, 2009)

 

Chair: Shubha Chaudhuri, Associate Director General ( Academic ) Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies

 

 A keen critic of culture in modern Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub shows how a genre of Indonesian music called dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indonesian cultural politics and the commercial music industry