Music of Indonesia
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"One of the earliest examples of crossover music is the music of French composer Claude Debussy. In 1889 the French government staged the great Paris Exposition, an event that was to have profound effects on many areas of western art and music. Debussy visited the exposition and it was here that he first heard gamelan music performed by Sundanese musicians. He was transfixed by the hypnotic, layered sound of the gamelan orchestra and reportedly returned to the Dutch East Indies pavilion over several days to listen to the Indonesian musicians perform and to study the structure and tuning of this novel musical form. His exposure to gamelan music had a direct influence on the composition of his famous Nocturnes for orchestra. "--Sholem Stein |
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The music of Indonesia demonstrates its cultural diversity, the local musical creativity, as well as subsequent foreign musical influences that shaped contemporary music scenes of Indonesia. Nearly thousands of Indonesian islands having its own cultural and artistic history and character.<ref>Indonesian Geography http://countrystudies.us/indonesia/28.htm</ref> This results in hundreds of different forms of music, which often accompanies by dance and theatre.
See also
- Anugerah Musik Indonesia
- List of Indonesian musicians and musical groups
- List of Indonesian composers
- List of Indonesian rock bands
- List of Indonesian pop musicians
- Culture of Indonesia
- Music of Java
- Indonesian popular music recordings
- Indonesian hip hop
- Rock music
- Pop music