Indonesia, Vol. 091, April 2011
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Item The Music of Bedhaya Anduk: A Lost Treasure RediscoveredIshida, Noriko (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-04)This is a short report on the discovery of the notation manuscript of the musical accompaniment to Bedhaya Anduk, a Solonese court dance once thought lost and irrecoverable, with its full transcription into modern cipher notation. The notation in question was discovered in one of the memorandum notebooks written in 1905 by K. R. T. Warsodiningrat (1887–1975), a master court musician of gamelan in Solo. Its melody and lyrics show sufficient attributes to be acknowledged as the offspring of the preceding Bedhaya Ketawang, the most sacred dance in the Solonese court, and also as the progenitor of several later works.Item Editors' Note, Indonesia, Volume 91 (April 2011)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-04)Item Front Cover and Title Page, Indonesia, Volume 91 (April 2011)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-04)Item Table of Contents, Indonesia, Volume 91 (April 2011)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-04)Item Review of The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia: The Inalienable Gift of TerritoryKaartinen, Timo (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-04)Item Betawi Moderen: Songs and Films of Benyamin S from Jakarta in the 1970s—Further Dimensions of Indonesian Popular CultureHanan, David; Koesasi, Basoeki (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-04)Benyamin S (1939–95) emerged as a major figure in Indonesian popular culture in the early 1970s as a singer and film comedian, and this study explores his songs and films. The article examines Benyamin’s adaptation of a traditional Betawi musical form, Gambang Kromong, into a modernized form, Gambang Moderen; his representation, in both songs and films, of Betawi communities, particularly communities of the poor; his creative use of bahasa Betawi as a medium for humor and as a language most expressive of community; and his capacity for pastiche, which extends to include an ironic Indonesian perspective on icons of Western popular culture. The article also explores the implicit critique, in some Benyamin S films, of social changes occurring at the time of rapid economic development in Jakarta under Suharto’s New Order in the 1970s.Item Review of Problems of Democratisation in Indonesia: Elections, Institutions, and SocietyHanggarini, Peni (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-04)Item Review of The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in IndonesiaFederspiel, Howard (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-04)Item Review of The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War: In cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for War DocumentationArdhana, I Ketut (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-04)Item Contributors, Indonesia, Volume 91 (April 2011)(Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2011-04)