DANGDUT AS A MASCOT OF INDONESIAN CULTURE POPULARITY

Global phenomenology seems to bring reality to minimize complexity into simplicity. Simple marks the minimalism. Complex structuralism where the minimalism lives by tells people that they live among others in a pop culture that unites them in a miniature of Music. A universal musicsphere living in one of Indonesian trends functioning such culture the so-called dangdut, a used to be traditional folk music with gendang and suling bamboo instruments, seems to surface as a reply to alternatively relieve exhaustive and monotonous life of people. By magic and myth within its cengkok rhythmical song and dut music lead its enjoyers to shake their body for some like long-standing-drunk people, as if they forgot their routine’s life that always stepped for tomorrow. Rather, in view of dangdut as a universal entertainment package, it might echo globally and dance locally. Lyrics (to drunk) and music (to shake) in Dangdut music art correlate a set of symbols constructions which enable it to be accepted in today’s world of minimalism.

The effectively sophisticated audiovisual and audio technology have much helped bring this music to international music banks. MTV, specializes in music programs, has also unforgotten to have a big role in making up the dangdut successful. The acceptedness of the audience with such program was another evidence to always maintain and compete with dangdut package in televisions.

Popularity of dangdut may we view at television screens, but close to interactive between the music group and audience is coming into real atmosphere of dangdut music . This “popular” music does not have any significant promotion problem anymore just like one or more decades ago. Those who enjoy it do nowadays come from all social stratifications. A past presumption that regard dangduts only belong to lower class did hardly come into existence any longer. Indeed, involving in dangdut life music is such as shaking the enjoyers’ body as watching in TV. The hits of dangdut tool not only quake the stage but also shiver the audience. The problem why dangdut music could attract people to dance and be widely accepted in particular way are points of interesting questions to pose and discuss. This paper attempts to shed a behavior light upon this phenomenon particularly in the scope of live stage dangdut performance.