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Indo Pop
Indo pop (), also known as Indonesian pop () or I-pop, is loosely defined as Indonesian music, Indonesian pop music; however, in a wider sense, it can also encompass Indonesian popular culture, pop culture, which also includes Cinema of Indonesia, Indonesian cinema and ''sinetrons'' (Indonesian TV dramas). Indonesian pop music today is sometimes influenced by trends and recordings from American popular music, Western music. However, in return, the Indonesian style of pop music has influenced the regional pop culture in Southeast Asia, especially the Malaysian pop scene that began imitating the Indonesian style of pop music in the late 2000s. Indo pop usually expresses contemporary Indonesian sentiments and lifestyles, generally about love and social life related to relationships. Indonesian pop music with sad and mellow melodies is popular and sells well. History One of the earliest form of Indonesian pop can be traced back to ''Orkes Melayu'' ("Malay Indonesians, Malay orche ...
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Music Of Indonesia
Indonesia is a country with many different tribes and ethnic groups, and its music is also very diverse, coming in hundreds of different forms and styles. Every region has its own culture and art, and as a result traditional music from area to area also uniquely differs from one another. For example, each traditional type of music is often accompanied by its very own dance and theatre. Contemporary music scene have also been heavily shaped by various foreign influences, such as America, Britain, Japan, Korea, and India. The music of Java, Sumatra, Bali, Flores (Lesser Sunda Islands) and other islands have been well documented and recorded, and further research by Indonesian and international scholars is also ongoing. The music in Indonesia predates historical records, various Native Indonesian tribes often incorporate chants and songs accompanied with musical instruments in their rituals. The contemporary music of Indonesia today is also popular amongst neighbouring countries ...
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Senja (genre)
Senja songs (lit. Dusk songs) refers to a style of Indonesian independent music that is usually performed with minimalist Acoustic music, acoustic arrangements (often just acoustic guitar, string bass, or soft percussion) or simple ambient touches. The lyrics are known to be poetic and melancholic, bringing a sense of deep contemplation, yet still feeling soothing. Thematically, senja indie songs often talk about love, memories, nature (e.g. dusk, rain, coffee), and personal reflections with aesthetic and metaphorical language. This style of music is often referred to as Indonesian indie-folk or folk-pop due to being heavily influenced by ballad-style acoustic folk. It is popular among Millennials, millennial and Generation Z, Gen-Z Indonesians. Background Historically, the term "indie" means independent - referring to musicians or bands that produce and distribute their work independently, without the auspices of a major label. In Indonesia itself, the independent music scene has ...
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Malaysian Pop
Malaysian popular music, sometimes called Malaysian pop () or abbreviated as M-pop, refers to popular music forms in the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia. Although pop music in various languages, such as Mandopop, is popular and has been produced in Malaysia, Malaysian pop refers to music recorded primarily in the Malay language in Malaysia. Malaysian pop covers a diversity of genres, such as Pop music, pop, Sentimental ballad, ballad, Folk music, Malaysian folk, Hip hop music, hip hop, Electronic dance music, EDM, Contemporary R&B, R&B, and Rock music, rock. Origin and influences Malaysian popular music has its origin in local musical traditions and popular European music styles. Some early musical styles, performers, and songs of kroncong and ''lagu-lagu rakyat'' (folk songs) were common to the musical cultures of Malaysia and Indonesia. Starting in the 1920s, local social dance and entertainment music such as ''Asli (music), asli'', ''inang'', ''joget'', ''dondang saya ...
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American Popular Music
American popular music (also referred to as "American Pop") is popular music produced in the United States and is a part of American pop culture. Distinctive styles of American popular music emerged early in the 19th century, and in the 20th century the American music industry developed a series of new forms of music, using elements of blues and other genres. These popular styles included country, R&B, jazz and rock. The 1960s and 1970s saw a number of important changes in American popular music, including the development of a number of new styles, such as heavy metal, punk, soul, and hip hop. American popular music is incredibly diverse, with styles including ragtime, blues, jazz, swing, rock, bluegrass, country, R&B, doo wop, gospel, soul, funk, pop, punk, disco, house, techno, salsa, grunge and hip hop. In addition, the American music industry is quite diverse, supporting a number of regional styles such as zydeco, klezmer and slack-key. Though these styles we ...
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Sinetron
A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by ''horse opera'', a derogatory term for low-budget Western (genre), Westerns. According to some dictionaries, for something to be adequately described as a soap opera, it need not be long-running; but some authors define the word in a way that excludes short-running serial dramas from their definition. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first Broadcasting, broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running soap opera. The longest-running television soap opera is ''Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV in 1960. According to Albert Moran, one of the defining features that make a television program a soap ...
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Cinema Of Indonesia
The cinema of Indonesia refers to films produced domestically in Indonesia. The statutory corporation, statutory Indonesian Film Board, or BPI, defines Indonesian films as "movies that are made by or using Indonesian resources whose Intellectual property, Intellectual Property Right is owned either entirely or partly by Indonesian citizen or Indonesian legal entity". Cinema in Indonesia dates back to the early 1900s. Until the 1920s, most cinemas in Indonesia were created by foreign studios, mostly from Cinema of Europe, Europe and the Cinema of United States, United States, whose films would then be imported to the country. Most of these films were silent documentaries and feature films from Cinema of France, France and the United States. Many documentaries about the nature and life of Indonesia were sponsored by the Dutch East Indies government, and were usually made by Dutch or Western European studios. The first domestically produced documentaries in Indonesia were produced ...
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Popular Culture
Popular culture (also called pop culture or mass culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of cultural practice, practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art [cf. pop art] or mass art, sometimes contrasted with fine art) and cultural objects, objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time. Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelings produced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects. The primary driving forces behind popular culture, especially when speaking of Western world, Western popular cultures, are the mass media, mass appeal, marketing and capitalism; and it is produced by what philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, Theodor Adorno refers to as the "culture industry". Heavily influenced in modern history, modern times by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday life, everyday lives of people in a given society. Therefore, popular culture has a way of influencing ...
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Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ...
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Indonesian Music
Indonesia is a country with many different Ethnic groups in Indonesia, tribes and ethnic groups, and its music is also very diverse, coming in hundreds of different forms and styles. Every region has its own culture and art, and as a result traditional music from area to area also uniquely differs from one another. For example, each traditional type of music is often accompanied by its very own Dance of Indonesia, dance and theatre. Contemporary music scene have also been heavily shaped by various foreign influences, such as America, Britain, Japan, Korea, and India. The music of Java, Sumatra, Bali, Flores (Lesser Sunda Islands) and other islands have been well documented and recorded, and further research by Indonesian and international scholars is also ongoing. The music in Indonesia predates historical records, various Native Indonesian tribes often incorporate chants and songs accompanied with musical instruments in their rituals. The contemporary music of Indonesia today ...
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Pop Kreatif
Pop kreatif () is an Indonesian offshoot and subgenre of Indo pop that emerged in the late 20th century as a fusion of Music of Indonesia, Indonesian music and contemporary global influences such as funk, jazz, disco, New wave music, new wave and soft rock. Rooted in urban culture, the genre is often characterized by its smooth melodies, upbeat rhythms, and nostalgic themes. Initially, the genre had been associated and reflective to the rapid modernization and Economy of Indonesia, economic growth of Indonesia during the 1980s and early 1990s. By the late 2010's, pop kreatif gained popularity among Indonesian youth and has seen a resurgence within the Indonesian music scene. Definition The term "pop kreatif" first appeared in Indonesian media in the 1980s. Journalists Seno M. Hardjo and Bens Leo were cited to have popularized this term to differentiate the music presented by musicians such as Guruh Sukarnoputra, Guruh Soekarnoputra, Eros Djarot, Chrisye, Fariz RM, and :id:Dian P ...
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Pop Melankolis
''Pop melankolis'' (), also known as ''pop manis'' (sweet pop) and pejoratively as ''pop cengeng'' or ''lagu cengeng'' (weepy pop or weepy song), is a subgenre of Indo pop originated in the 1960s and reached its peak popularity in the 1980s, characterized by its slow tempo, sentimental themes and influences from 1950s American traditional pop, incorporating elementary chord progressions.Yampolsky, P. (1989). “Hati Yang Luka”, an Indonesian Hit. ''Indonesia'', ''47'', 1–17. This subgenre was briefly banned from being broadcast on TVRI in 1988 by Harmoko, Indonesia's then Minister of Information. Definition The term "pop melankolis" was coined by Indonesian songwriter Rinto Harahap to describe his style of music, which was described as "cengeng" (whiny or weepy) by Harmoko. It is also known as "pop manis" (sweet pop). The music of ''pop melankolis'' is characterized by elementary chord progressions harkening back to American traditional pop from the 1950s-1960s, as heard in ...
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Indonesian Hip Hop
Indonesian hip hop is hip hop music created in Indonesia. History and styles Hip hop music began to be produced in Indonesia in the early 1990s, with the first Indonesia artist to release a full-length hip hop album being the emcee Iwa K. It became especially popular in the eastern provinces, such as of Papua (province), Papua and Maluku (province), Maluku. , the 50th anniversary of hip hop music since its birth in New York City, the genre is still going strong in Indonesia. Many Indonesian hip hop groups rhyme in the Indonesian language, but there are also groups that rhyme in English. Variously, songs often combine formal Indonesian with street slang, youth code, regionally colored pronunciations, and even expressions from regional languages (typically Javanese language, Javanese, Sundanese language, Sundanese, or Betawi language, Betawi). Indonesian hip hop is often mixed with heavy metal music, heavy metal, dubbed "hip-metal". Groups such as Iwa-K and Denada produce music in ...
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