Festivalisation Jazz in Indonesia Music in Human Life dalam International Hisarly Ahmet Symposium, Kutahya Turki

Aryandari, Citra (2019) Festivalisation Jazz in Indonesia Music in Human Life dalam International Hisarly Ahmet Symposium, Kutahya Turki. In: Music in Human Life dalam International Hisarly Ahmet Symposium, Kutahya Turki, 25-27 April 2019, Turki.

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Abstract

This paper discusses the phenomenon of "Jazz" festivals in Indonesia that is both massive and widely disseminated with more than sixty Jazz Festivals held each year. Festivalisation of "Jazz" comes as a cultural phenomenon that shows the relation between Jazz music as global culture and local cultural products related to identity and lifestyle. Jazz in Indonesia cannot be separated from its presence during the colonial Dutch era in the early twentieth century. Artists from the Philippines also played a major role in introducing Jazz in Indonesia. They were either invited or came voluntarily to Jakarta and Bandung to play jazz in functions or public places such as hotels. That’s why "Jazz" music in Indonesia carries a stigma of bourgeois music. In the 1980s Jazz appeared in some national TV programs and radio, which made Jazz as a music genre known to a larger audience/public. By this time Jazz had mingled with, and began to enter village life, including festivals. Since “Jazz” is considered “high class”, exceeding rural livelihoods, music events that present themselves as “Jazz” events are considered to be catchy and sexy, enabling a form a class distinction, also in villages. In this context, Jazz gets commodified through festivals for various purposes, especially the development of tourism. Thus, festivalisation penetrates the boundaries of social classes. Jazz is a powerful means of expression and identity articulation, not only on stages and spaces that were formerly reserved for jazz enthusiasts, but in new spaces in society.

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