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Kemayoran

Track Artist Grup Bamba Puang
Notes This genre of singing with guitar accompaniment by the Mandar of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, is called sayang-sayang, and performed at weddings and domestic celebrations. Sayang-sayang has texts made up of independent verses: a singer spontaneously strings together verses of the same stanza form, chosen from the singer’s stock of memorized verses, or sometimes composed on the spot. The verses are "independent" because the order in which they are sung is not determined in advance, and the verses are not tied to a fixed narrative line; each verse is complete in itself. The verses here lament the singer’s misfortune and outcast state, a common theme for independent-verse songs.
Country(s) Indonesia
Culture Group(s) Mandar
Genre(s) World music
Instrument(s) Guitar
Language(s) Mandar
Duration 4:56

Music of Indonesia, Vol. 20: Indonesian Guitars

Various Artists SFW40447

Guitars are everywhere in Indonesia. Most Indonesian guitars are the standard acoustic instrument: a waisted flat body,a wooden soundboard, a long fretted neck, and six strings. Urban popular music may also use electric rock guitars and Hawaiian guitars. In some rural areas of eastern Indonesia, homemade instruments may be of crude construction, without frets and with only four strings, but if they approximate the size and waisted shape of the standard guitar, we consider them guitars for our purposes. Guitars occur in a small number of genres of Indonesian music, but they are prominent nevertheless, since some of the genres in which they figure—pop, dangdut, kroncong—are known throughout the country. They are used only in entertainment music and what we may call religious popular music. Their most common use is to accompany informal singing of popular songs, church songs in Christian communities, and regional or national folksongs (lagu rakyat). These are taught in school or are generally known, but they are not perceived as originating in commercial popular music. (Yampolsky 1999)

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Country(s) Indonesia
Culture Group(s) Mandar; Abung; Sumbanese; Bugis; Meto; Arhuaco Indians
Keyword(s) World music
Instrument(s) Guitar; Jungga; Kacapi (Lute); Ukulele
Language(s) Abung; Bugis; Indonesian; Kambera; Mandar; Timor
Year of Release 1999
Record Label Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Credits Produced in collaboration with Masyarakat Seni Pertunjukan Indonesia (Indonesian Society for the Performing Arts) (MSPI) ; Mastered by Paul Blakemore, Paul Blakemore Audio, Santa Fe, NM ; Compiled by Philip Yampolsky ; Notes Edited by Philip Yampolsky ; Liner Notes by Philip Yampolsky ; Recorded by Philip Yampolsky ; Recorded by Philip Yampolsky ; Produced by Philip Yampolsky

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Play	101	Kemayoran	Grup Bamba Puang	4:56
Play	102	Stambul Naturil	Usman Achmad	4:02
Play	103	Terang Bulan (excerpt)	Sahilin and Siti Rohmah	5:55
Play	104	Ludu Pambuhang	Yohanes Terpanjang (Haingu)	6:16
Play	105	Sungguh Terpaksa	La Podding and La Mamma	4:16
Play	106	Los Quin Tallu-tallu	Grup Bamba Puang	6:19
Play	107	Nasib Mak Kualon	Usman Achmad	6:28
Play	108	Langgam Di Bawah Sinar Bulan Purnama	Orkes Kroncong Mutiara	4:58
Play	109	Kolo Kot Matani	Band Teleu Nekaf	6:57
Play	110	Nasib Muara Kuang	Sahilin and Siti Rohmah	6:20
Play	111	Ludu Parinna	Ataratu	9:47
Play	112	Fajar Di Atas Awan	Suarasama	7:19

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