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Jaipongan
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Also known as Jaipong, Tari jaipongan, Tari Jaipong

Jaipongan (), also known as Jaipong, is a popular traditional dance of Sundanese people from Indonesia. The dance was created by Gugum Gumbira, based on the traditional Sundanese Ketuk Tilu music and pencak silat movements.

Key facts

Dance.title
Jaipongan
Dance.image
Jaipongan Langit Biru 03.jpg
Dance.caption
Jaipongan Mojang Priangan dance performance
Dance.genre
Neo-Traditional
Dance.signature
style of gamelan,
Dance.inventor
Sundanese (Gugum Gumbira)
Dance.origin
Indonesia

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Background
  • Gugum Gumbira
  • Musical origins
  • Instrumentation and choreography
  • Social implications
  • Jaipong today
  • Film
  • Popular artists
  • See also
  • References

Jaipongan (), also known as Jaipong, is a popular traditional dance of Sundanese people from Indonesia. The dance was created by Gugum Gumbira, based on the traditional Sundanese Ketuk Tilu music and pencak silat movements.

== Background == In 1961, Indonesian President Sukarno prohibited rock and roll and other Western genres of music and challenged Indonesian musicians to revive the indigenous arts. The name jaipongan came from people mimicking the sounds created by some of the drums in the ensemble. Audiences were often heard shouting jaipong after specific sections of rhythmic music were played. Jaipongan made its public debut in 1974 when Gugum Gumbira and his degung and dancers first performed in public.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jaipongan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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