Mortar Music Tradition as the Javanese Agrarian Folklore in Magetan, Indonesia

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10.2991/assehr.k.200323.004How to use a DOI?

Keywords

agrarian, folklore, lesung, morta, music

Abstract

Javanese is familiar with the rich folklore. In Magetan, East Java, Indonesia there is a music tradition that has a form of rhythm pattern from the pounding lesung (a kind of wooden mortar) and pestle. This study focuses on the music phenomena of oral tradition as a way to educate from the elder to younger people. This research uses qualitative interpretative as a method. Qualitative interpretative in this research understand the data from the local terminology and views contextual relationships among the art objects to the culture of society as an organic system. As a result, the mortar music tradition is Javanese agrarian folklore which exists for years. The tradition is contained in the value of fertility, the prominent character of agrarian culture. The society can keep the continuity of life through how they cultivate the land and how they do reproduction from the value of daily life and guides of life.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dea Lunny Primamona
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/25
TI  - Mortar Music Tradition as the Javanese Agrarian Folklore in Magetan, Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts Language and Culture (ICALC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 21
EP  - 31
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200323.004
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200323.004
ID  - Primamona2020
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