Recollecting Resonances

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Indonesian–Dutch Musical Encounters

Edited by Bart Barendregt and Els Bogaerts

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Multifaceted scholar Specialist in Old Javanese, classical Malay and modern Indonesian literature Lexicographer Translator Mentor Fostering mutual cooperation among Indonesian and Dutch scholars

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List of Illustrations ...... ix

1.. Recollecting Resonances: Listening to an Indonesian–Dutch Musical Heritage ...... 1 Bart Barendregt and Els Bogaerts

2.. Photographic Representations of the Performing Indonesian .... 31 Liesbeth Ouwehand

3.. ‘Queen Wilhelmina, Mother of the Mentawaians’: The Dutch National Anthem in Indonesia and as Part of the Music Culture of Siberut ...... 61 Gerard A. Persoon

4.. Past and Present Issues of Javanese–European Musical Hybridity: Gendhing Mares and Other Hybrid Genres ...... 87 Sumarsam

5.. Drummers of the Sultan of Buton: The Lasting Influence of the Dutch East India Company on Local Music Traditions .... 109 Miriam L. Brenner

6.. Musical Modernism in the Twentieth Century ...... 129 R. Franki S. Notosudirdjo

7.. Constant van de Wall, a European–Javanese Composer ...... 151 Henk Mak van Dijk

8.. A Musical Friendship: The Correspondence between Mangkunegoro VII and the Ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst, 1919 to 1940 ...... 179 Madelon Djajadiningrat and Clara Brinkgreve

9.. Encounters in the Context of Inspiring Sundanese Music and Problematic Theories ...... 203 Wim van Zanten

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10. Indonesian Performing Arts in the Netherlands, 1913–1944 ...... 231 Matthew Isaac Cohen

11. ‘Barat Ketemu Timur’: Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Making of Early Kroncong History ...... 259 Lutgard Mutsaers

12. Tradition and Creative Inspiration: Musical Encounters of the Moluccan Communities in the Netherlands ...... 281 Rein Spoorman

13. Multicultural Encounters on Stage: The Use of Javanese Cultural Elements by the Surinamese Doe-Theatre Company ... 297 Annika Ockhorst

14. Kollektief Muziek Theater’s Repositioning of Moluccan Issues ...... 319 Fridus Steijlen

Contributors ...... 339 Index ...... 345

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2.1 . The salendro in the kraton (plate IX) (KITLV 11569) ...... 36 2.2 . Serimpi’s dancing the story of Adaninggar (plate VIII) (KITLV 11568) ...... 36 2.3 . Man playing the kledi (mouth organ) (KITLV 25720) ...... 39 2.4 . Kayan women dressed as men dancing during a sowing feast (KITLV 25674) ...... 40 2.5 . Man performing a weapon dance accompanied by a kledi player (source: Nieuwenhuis 1907, opposite page 132) ...... 42 2.6 . Young Kayan woman playing a stringed shield while reciting stories (KITLV 25661) ...... 43 2.7 . Kledi player in front of a pot in which rice is cooked (KITLV 25799) ...... 44 2.8 . Man is being shaved, while a man and a woman are playing the flute and the mouth harp (on the left) (source: Nieuwenhuis 1907, opposite page 146b) ...... 44 2.9. Musical instruments from the Bahau region (source: Quer durch Borneo 1907, opposite page 145) ...... 45 2.10. Man and woman playing the rebab and in (KITLV 32145) ...... 47 2.11 . Dancer posing with a small orchestra in Java (KITLV 32147) ...... 48 2.12 . Balinese gandrung at the pasar malam in Surabaya (KITLV 10834) ...... 51 2.13 . Studio portrait of a topeng player (KITLV 10857) ...... 53 2.14 . Studio portrait of two wayang topeng player (KITLV 10859) ...... 54 2.15 . Studio portrait of Balinese gandrung dancers (KITLV 10858) ...... 55 2.16 Kuda kepang performance at the pasar malam with the audience on the left (KITLV 10840) ...... 56 2.17 . Madurese dancers at the pasar malam (KITLV 10833) ...... 57 3.1 . Asak performing a ritual after construction work at his house (photo by author, 1981) ...... 64

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3.2 . Group of Mentawaians around 1910. The man in the front is wearing his official outfit after having been installed as village head (source: picture collection Mrs. Ruinen) ...... 68 3.3 . A page of the account written by missionary Lett on the visit of Governor Heekler to Sikakap 1909 ...... 70 5.1 . Drummers of the Sultan of Boeton by Walter Kaudern (1927) ...... 114 5.2 . Alifirisi by Van den Berg (1937) ...... 117 5.3. Loetoenani by Van de Berg (1937) ...... 117 5.4 . Alifirisi in Bau Bau Kraton (photo by author, March 2007) ...... 122 5.5 . Old tamburu drum just outside of the Kraton (photo by author, March 2007) ...... 123 5.6 . Membrane of old tamburu drum in image 6 (photo by author, March 2007) ...... 123 5.7 . New tamburu with factory made membranes and snare (photo by author, March 2007) ...... 124 5.8 . Tamburu played from the side adorned by the Kraton’s pineapple (photo by author, March 2007) ...... 124 6.1 . R.M. Soerjo Poetro in the Netherlands in 1916 (source: Nederlandsch Indië Oud en Nieuw 5e jaargang, no. 9, 1920, page 259) ...... 137 6.2 . Indies family with their music activity (KITLV 31931) ...... 141 7.1. Constant van de Wall, The Hague 1907 (collection: Henk Mak van Dijk) ...... 152 7.2. Song of Death (collection: Henk Mak van Dijk) ...... 154 7.3. Negresco, announcement concert of the Van de Walls 1921 (collection: Henk Mak van Dijk) ...... 157 7.4. Scene from Attima (collection: Henk Mak van Dijk) ...... 167 7.5. Raden Kodrat, in Attima, 1922 (collection: Henk Mak van Dijk) ...... 171 7.6. Front page music drama Attima (collection: Henk Mak van Dijk) ...... 172 7.7. Attima, The Hague, Royal Theatre, 2008 (collection: Henk Mak van Dijk) ...... 174 8.1 . Official photograph of the bridal couple, Mangkunegoro VII and Ratu Timur, 1921 (photo in collection of authors) ...... 182 8.2 . Jaap Kunst and family. Bandung, 1925 (photo in collection of authors) ...... 183

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8.3 . Gamelan orchestra in front of the pendopo of the Astana Mangkunegaran, 1923 (photo in collection of authors) ...... 189 9.1 . Uking Sukri on the suling bamboo flute and the author on kacapi indung zither. Aarlanderveen, the Netherlands, 1988 (photo in collection of author) ...... 218 9.2 . Letter of 29 June 1982 to author by Uking Sukri when he was on a concert tour in France ...... 221 9.3 . Announcement of the ‘Jazz with Kecapi Suling’ concerts by Bubi Chen and the ‘Mang Uking Trio’ ...... 224 9.4. Rehearsal of Dutch Cianjuran group Dangiang Parahiangan with piano (photo courtesy of Ronald Bergman) ...... 225 10.1 . Group photo of participants in an Indische Kunstavond (KITLV 34438) ...... 238 10.2 . Advertisement in Het Vaderland (29 October 1927) ...... 250 10.3 . Gamelan and dance performed by Vereeniging Eurasia at the Indische Tentoonstelling (KITLV 1401928) ...... 251 10.4 . Indra Kamadjaja. Postcard in collection of author (photographer unknown) ...... 256 11.1 . Portrait of Siep (source: Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie) .... 272 12.1. Moluccan Moods Orchestra, with author sitting at the bottom right (photo courtesy of the author) ...... 291 14.1. Members of H-Gang and the Bintang Merah Choir at a private party, 1984 (photo by author) ...... 326 14.2 . The Merantau Choir at the Conference Handel in Onderdrukking (‘Trade in Oppression’), 1982 (photo by author) ...... 332 14.3 . Singing the socialist ‘Internationale’ anthem at the Free University, Amsterdam 1980 ...... 335

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