Music Styles among the Kayan, Kenyah-Badang and Malay Peoples of the Upper Rejang River [Sarawak]: A Preliminary Survey.
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Music Styles among the Kayan, Kenyah-Badang and Malay Peoples of the Upper Rejang River [Sarawak]: A Preliminary Survey. |
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Author :
Patricia Matusky |
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Abstract:
A two-year music research project, begun in 1984, continued with an additional research trip during the last part of December, 1985 in the Belaga area of Sarawak’s Seventh Division.* The results of the earlier research trip have been reported and appear in an issue of the Sarawak Museum Journal from 1986.1 The second documentation trip was undertaken during and immediately following the 1985 Christmas holiday season, focusing on the performing arts of specific ethnic groups living up- and down-river of Belaga town.2 As in the earlier trip,our immediate goalwas to record in written document, photography, and on audio and video tape as many of the genres of music and musical instruments still used and performed today. We re-visited the Kayan longhouse known as Uma Apan (at Kaki Menjawah) where the headman, Kesing Nyipa,was present (unlikeour previous visit in 1984).3 The Kenyah-Badang longhouse at Long Dungunwas another important place of research, and finallywe were able to record some popular music and dance genres at the Malay kampung in Belaga town. The Christmas holiday is an occasion when time is set aside for religious celebration as well as for special events such as marriages and other feasts which are carried out with much reverence. Joviality and enthusiasm. We were fortunate to have been able to travel by long boat from Belaga as far as the Uma Apan (just below the Bakun Rapids), even though the level of the Rejang River was quite low at that time of the year.
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| DOI: XXXX |
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How to cite:
Patricia Matusky. (1990). Music Styles among the Kayan, Kenyah-Badang and Malay Peoples of the Upper Rejang River [Sarawak]: A Preliminary Survey. The Sarawak Museum Journal, XLI (62): 115-156 |
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