Development of Indonesian Dangdut Under the Transformation of Socio-Cultural Space in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Hsieh, Shou-Fan, 謝首帆
• Other Authors: 蔡宗德
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67695406506753224782

碩士 === 國立臺南藝術大學 === 民族音樂學研究所 === 103 === Indonesian popular music dangdut developed in 1970s among middle and lower social stratum in Java has been widely used in different occasions of Indonesian migrants community in Taiwan. While Indonesian migrants carried dangdut music across the lands to Taiwan decades ago, Indonesian dangdut music has to face the transformation of socio-cultural space and experience the particular process of musical modification. However, dangdut is not only the essence of socio-cultural systematic production in Indonesia, but also an important tool to maintain their common cultural system in the host country Taiwan. Therefore, dangdut is a kind of entertainment and also becomes a symbol of nostalgia and cultural identification of Indonesian migrants in Taiwan. Although the migrants tried to keep their own characterics of dangdut music, for being accepted by local peoples, they also integrated dangdut with Taiwanese music to create new musical varieties. Although, today, dangdut has become the most important musical genre among the Indonesian communities in Taiwan, it has to encounter the changed social, political, economic, and cultural environments and be inevitably differentiated from its original music characteristics in Indonesia. For understanding the roots and routes of Indonesian dangdut music in Taiwan, this thesis will focus on the performing contexts and morphological analysis of dangdut music in Taiwan by following aspects: performing contexts and musical characteristics of dangdut in Indonesia, socio-cultural transformation on dangdut performance in Taiwan, musical syncretism and variation of dangdut music, and socio-cultural functions and meanings of dangdut music in the host land, Taiwan.