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Research Paper | Arts and Humanities | Indonesia | Volume 7 Issue 6, June 2018

Kiaikanjengs Music as the Hybrid Culture form in the Aesthetic of Archipelago Religion Music

Lilis Hidayati Ruchmana S.Pd

Abstract: Kiaikanjeng music was a tone concept to traditional music instrument i. e. Gamelan, which was made by Nevi Budianto. The tone concept meant was the integrity among diatonic tone scales not the traditional gamelan with pelog selendro tone. The system of major and minor tone scales was combined with pentatonic scale tone so that the gamelan tone could enter to all kind of music. It was done to enable exploration of songs with various genre musics. Kiaikanjeng group greeted the society with a number of different music kinds Java, Sunda, China, Western, Qosidah, and whatever because those were the variety of Indonesia people. The process of creating art in humans life could not apart from the process of creating purity and hybridity as the basic element. This creating process was actively involved in acculturation and assimilation culture. Beginning from this way, it could be convinced that the hybridity was an integrating interference. In this concept, it was not only integration but also acculturation. It was formed a new construction which was the result of acculturation of some interferences. In this case, a new application concept formed a new identity to its persistence and it was Kiaikanjeng music as the hybrid culture music. In this research, the aesthetic of hybrid culture became deep study in concerning the problem of plurality values to the process of art forming itself. The direction of this research would be directed to the comprehension of forming art exhibition aesthetics, and looked at the correlation happened among the hybridity values to the art exhibition aesthetic. To expose the problem, the research was done by using ethnography research method, history research method, and art research method in interpreting the process of hybrid culture to Kiaikanjeng music.

Keywords: Kiaikanjeng music, hybrid culture, aesthetic, religion music

Edition: Volume 7 Issue 6, June 2018,

Pages: 1731 - 1736