Deconstruction of Gambus Art Instrumentation, as a Prototype of the Emergence of Bandar Art in Pariaman West Sumatera

Abstract

The establishment of gambus art in Pariaman as a port city is inseparable from the influence of Gujarat Arabs and western colonialism. In the past, Pariaman was famous as a place where Islam first entered the coastal regions of West Sumatra. This region was dominated by the interests of the sovereigns socially, politically, economically and culturally by migrant traders and Western colonials for quite a long time. This research, musicology, aims to see the deconstruction of a gambus orchestra instrument as a prototype of the emergence of Bandar art in the city of Pariaman namely gamat music and katumbak music. The research method used is descriptive analysis and interpretive methods using qualitative data in two aspects textual and contextual. It is suspected that, in terms of the development of the Gambus orchestra instrumentation in the city of Pariaman in 1965, it was marked not only by using acoustic musical instruments such as, gambus imported from Arabic but also by using other acoustic musical instruments imported from the West such as: violins, guitars, accordion, harmonium, cello pick, tipa drum, castanyet, and bass contra. Furthermore, this type of instrumentation is also used by other similar music groups, in the coastal regions of West Sumatra

Keywords: Deconstruction, Instrumentation, Gambus, Art, Bandar.

DOI: 10.7176/ADS/79-05

Publication date: December 31^st 2019