Indang Sungai Garinggiang: The Hybridization of a Popular Image Packagedas a Performing Art in West Sumatra

Abstract

This article aims to uncover the subject of Indang Sungai Garinggiang: the hybridization of a popular image packaged as a performing art in West Sumatra. The indang is membranophone, a type of tambourine or rebana (terbangan) which the people of Sungai Garinggiang, Pariaman in West Sumatra call the rapa’i.Indang Sungai Garinggiang is a new performing art genre which is a collaboration – hybridization – of popular dance and music in a commercial form. A qualitative method is used as the basis for this research. The primary data was obtained through a documentary study; the analysis was done descriptively using a theoretical concept, with knowledge of hybridization and popular culture. The results of the research show that Indang Sungai Garinggiang as a popular culture is an arena for the cultural production of ‘a battlefield’ of two different traditions which recognizes ‘authority over the power of domination’ – hegemony.

Keywords: Indang Sungai Garinggiang, hybridization, popular image, performing art.

DOI: 10.7176/ADS/73-01

Publication date:May 31^st 2019