PROCEEDINGS 1st SYMPOSIUM SINGAPORE: ICTM STUDY GROUP ON PERFORMING ARTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA HYBRIDITY IN THE PERFORMING ARTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA SILAT (MARTIAL ARTS) OF SOUTHEAST ASIA CULTURAL STUDIES IN MUSIC AND DANCE ARCHIVING AND DOCUMENTATION NEW RESEARCH Proceedings of the 1st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia Editors Mohd Anis Md Nor, Patricia Matusky, Tan Sooi Beng, Jacqueline-Pugh Kitingan and Felicidad Prudente Assisted by Hanafi Hussin Nusantara Performing Arts Research Centre (NusPARC) Department of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Symposium 2010 International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia i PROCEEDINGS 1st SYMPOSIUM SINGAPORE: ICTM STUDY GROUP ON PERFORMING ARTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA Organizational Committee Joyce Teo, Tania Goh of Saltshaker Productions Pte. Ltd, the staff and students in the Technology and Arts Management Program of the Republic Polytechnic of Singapore Program Committee Patricia Matusky, Mohd. Anis Md. Nor, Tan Sooi Beng, Made Mantle Hood, Joyce Teo, Gisa Jaehnichen In Singapore the 1st Symposium was sponsored by the School of Technology for the Arts, Republic Polytechnic Proceedings of the 1st Symposium is sponsored by Nusantara Performing Arts Research Centre (NusPARC) Department of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Malaya The publication was edited by a group effort with volunteers from the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia Editors: Mohd Anis Md Nor, Patricia Matusky, Tan Sooi Beng, Jacqueline-Pugh Kitingan & Felicidad Prudente Production Editors Mohd. Anis Md. Nor and Hanafi Hussin Printer City Reprographic Services, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Printed copies 500 © 2011, Copyright by ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia Data Pengkatalogan-dalam-Penerbitan Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia (1st : 2010 : Kuala Lumpur) Proceedings of the 1st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia : hybridity in the performing arts of Southeast Asia : silat (martial arts) of Southeast Asia : cultural studies in music and dance : archiving and documentation & new research / editors Mohd Anis Md Nor … [et al.]. ISBN 978-967-5148-96-5 1. Performing arts – Southeast Asia – Congresses. 2. Dance – Folklore. I. Mohd Anis Md Nor. II. International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia. 793.31959 ii PROCEEDINGS 1st SYMPOSIUM SINGAPORE: ICTM STUDY GROUP ON PERFORMING ARTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi INTRODUCTIONS vii PHOTOGRAPHS ix SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM xii THEME ONE Hybridity in the Performing Arts of Southeast Asia 1 Mashino Ako Rodat and Rebana as Symbols of Muslim Balinese Cultural Identity 2 Ang Susan From “All the Same” to “the Same” – About a Lullaby of the Dusun Labuk 7 Mohd Anis Md Nor From Matrilineality to Post-Colonial Gazes: Hybridity in Minangkabau Art Dance and Music 14 David Harnish Music Hybridity in Bali: The Agency & Performance Style of Guitarist I Wayan Balawan 20 Felicidad A. Prudente Asserting Cordillera Identity Among the Indigenous Peoples of Northern Philippines 25 Jennifer Fraser Hybridity and Emergent Traditions: Gongs, Pop Songs, and the Story of Talempong Kreasi in West Sumatra 31 Joe Peters Plotting “On-loading” and “In-loading” Trajectories in an Attempt to Understand Hybridism in Musical Evolution 37 Kendra Stepputat Kecak Ramayana – Tourists in Search for ‘the real thing’ 43 Lawrence Ross The Hybrid Melodic and Textual Repertoires of Southwest Thailand’s Rong Ngeng Tanyong 50 Margaret Sarkissian Strike up the Band: Straits Chinese Musical Eclecticism at the End of the Colonial Era 57 Patricia Matusky Wayang Jawa (Wayang Melayu) Ancient Malaysian Shadow Play (wayang kulit): Aristocratic Hegemony in a Hybridized Form 65 Bernard Ellorin From the Kulintangan to the Electronic Keyboard: Traditional and Contemporary Musical Practices among the Sama in Sabah and the Sulu Archipelago 74 iii PROCEEDINGS 1st SYMPOSIUM SINGAPORE: ICTM STUDY GROUP ON PERFORMING ARTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA Shzr Ee Tan The rise and fall of ‘red’ accordions: inscribing China into Singapore’s ‘homeland’ 78 Tan Sooi Beng The Thai Menora in Penang: Recreating Local Identities Through Hybridity 86 THEME TWO Silat (martial arts) of Southeast Asia 90 Gisa Jaehnichen Silat: Observations from Stong (Kelantan) and from Kuala Penyu (Sabah) 91 Margaret Kartomi The Collaborative Art of Self-Defence among the Suku Mamak of Sumatra and a Theory of the Genre’s Origins 97 Uwe Paetzold Some Macro and Micro Views on the Correlations between Pencak Silat, Music and Dance in West Java, and the Netherlands 102 Bussakorn Binson Sila: Traditional Martial Art of Southern Thailand 108 Paul H Mason Modes of Transmission: Traditional West Sumatran & Contemporary West Javanese Practices of Indigenous Martial Arts 113 THEME THREE Archiving and Documentation 120 Alex Dea Who Did King Tut Pay? 121 Gini Gorlinski Building a Dynamic Archive of Southeast Asian Performing Arts for Education and Research: The EVIADA Model 125 Gisa Jaehnichen Audiovisual Documents as Ethnomusicological Sources in Southeast Asia 132 Made Mantle Hood Negotiating the Archives: Preserving and Publishing Central Javanese Gamelan Field Recordings 137 Belinda Maria Salazar Digitization Project of Filipino Composers’ Music Scores at the Philippine Women’s University 142 Julia Chieng Singing Sape: An Audiovisual Exploration of Suling Apoi 148 iv PROCEEDINGS 1st SYMPOSIUM SINGAPORE: ICTM STUDY GROUP ON PERFORMING ARTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA THEME FOUR Cultural Studies in Music and Dance 157 Sumarsam Binary Division in Javanese Gamelan and Socio-Cosmological Order 158 Birgit Abels Music, Metamorphoses, Movement: The Traditional Music of the Sama Dilaut, Musical Change, and Spatiality 165 THEME FIVE New Research 170 Christine Yun May Yong Contesting Boundaries of the Malay Gamelan: The Contemporary Response of Rhythm in Bronze 171 Raja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid “Nobat Tabal” – The Song That Installs A Sultan 176 Mumtaz Begum Aboo Backer Passing on Traditions: Gidda - The Dance of the Punjabi Women in Penang 184 Toh Lai Chee Teaching and Learning of Gamelan Music Through Multiple Intelligences 190 Ng Ting Hsiang Developing Gamelan Virtual Instruments for Modern Music 196 Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan Kadazandusun Gong Ensembles in the Ethnographic Mapping of Tambunan, Sabah, Malaysia 203 Rebekah Moore Practicing Belonging in Bali’s Indie Music Scene 210 Lilymae Montano Gong Tradition, Trade, and Tourism in Ifugao, Philippines 215 Pamela Costes-Onishi and Hideaki Onishi Traditional and Filipino American Kulintang Improvisations: Making Authenticity Issues Current in the Global Age 219 Abstracts (Presenters who did not submit their papers) 225 Collages 227 v PROCEEDINGS 1st SYMPOSIUM SINGAPORE: ICTM STUDY GROUP ON PERFORMING ARTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Proceedings of the 1st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia is the result of a shared contribution of paper writers, editors and sponsors of this publication. We thank all of them for their contributions. As a special mention, we wish to acknowledge the following individuals, institutions and agencies for their assistance in making the 1st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia a success. Republic Polytechnic, Singapore (In particular, The School of Technology for the Arts and The Republic Cultural Centre) National University of Singapore, Thai Language Program Absolutely Thai, Singapore Phattayakul Thai Music and Drama School, Thailand Chulalongkorn University, Thailand STIAB, Semarang, Indonesia Firely Mission (ngo), Singapore Young Composers, Singapore (Featuring Tze Toh and the Looking Glass Ensemble, Andy Chia and New Horizons Band, BronzAge Gamelan Ensemble) LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore Angklung Web Institute, Bandung, Indonesia SDS Trisula Menteng (angklung group), Indonesia Gamelan Naga Kencana, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore Jose S. Buenconsejo (video screening River of Exchange), College of Music, University of the Philippines, Manila Pamela Costes, Director, Sari-Sari Philippine Ensemble, Singapore Indra Utama, silat performer/dancer, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Uwe Paetzold (silat video screening), Robert Schumann University of Music, Germany Tania Goh, Saltshaker Productions, Singapore Thank you (Xie xie, Khob kun ka, Maraming salamat, Terima kasih, Dankeschön) Patricia Matusky Chair, 1st Symposium Committee Chair of the Study Group and Program Chair Joyce Teo Chair, Local Arrangements Committee vi PROCEEDINGS 1st SYMPOSIUM SINGAPORE: ICTM STUDY GROUP ON PERFORMING ARTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA INTRODUCTION The 1st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia took place at the Republic Polytechnic in Singapore on 10-13 June 2010. This Symposium saw some 57 delegates from Australia, Austria, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the USA come together to hear and discuss some 43 paper presentations, video documentaries, demonstrations, and dance and music performances. The Symposium began with words of welcome and encouragement from Dr. Victor Valbuena, Director of the School of Technology for the Arts, Republic Polytechnic, the host for this Symposium. Welcoming comments also came from Dr. Tan Sooi Beng of the ICTM Board, Ms. Joyce