Malay Music Culture of Urang Pulo: Identity and Dilemma

Ari Palawi; Margaret J. Kartomi

Malay Music Culture of Urang Pulo: Identity and Dilemma

Authors

Ari Palawi

Margaret J. Kartomi

Keywords:

Music Culture, Urang Pulo, Banyak Archipelago, Sumatera, Indonesia

Synopsis

This book investigates the music-cultural identity and conservational dilemma of the hitherto un-researched music-culture of the Islanders (Urang Pulo) of the Banyak Archipelago in Aceh-Singkil Regency off the west coast of Aceh, Indonesia. The Islanders’ dominant concept of identity is coloured by their dominant sikambang music, dance and legend, history of cultural contact with west-coastal Sumatran Malay and offshore island area, Niasan and Simeulue immigration to the Islands, the cultural memory of their former court centre at Haloban, the Islanders’ peripheral contact with the Dutch colonial power, and their typically Malay kacokan tendency to combine selective elements of cultures with which they have been in sustained contact. The people’s traditional customs (adat istiadat) and Animist-Muslim worldview shine through their vocal and instrumental music, dances, and bardic story-telling genres at weddings, circumcisions and in daily routine.

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