Minority Musics

<div>6.1 Barong Sai troupe at Festival Mataram, 2017, performing and interacting with political and military leaders.</div><div><br></div><div>6.2 Gamelan Jerujeng at Dusun Baru, a Buda village, 1988. Performance is at a ngayu ayu festival called Mulek Kaya. This sacred pusaka (heirloom) gamelan features serune double-reed (almost inaudible due to damage), gongs, drums, and chime and it was performed throughout the days of the event. </div><div><br></div><div>6.3 Overlapping badede (indigenous poetry) singers at Dusun Baru while the Belian medium escorts the village ancestors into a makeshift shrine and Buddha is ushered into the central stone shrine. A member of the tuaq lokaq (pemangku council) sits before the stone shrine. </div><div><br></div><div>6.4 The Belian leads a group of dancers “dancing” pusaka (heirloom) items – fan, shield and spear, staff – around the makeshift shrine three times in a counterclockwise direction. The gamelan jerujeng performs “Ring Ringan” (Accompanying) with an unrelated badede singer. </div><div><br></div><div>6.5 Balinese Preret player for temple consecration, Batu Kumbung (West Lombok), 2017. The piece this player is performing is “Guak Jidol” (Crow Steals Egg); a similar piece is played on Barong Tengkok. Preret are played with a circular breathing technique. This preret has an unusually large bell. </div><div><br></div><div>6.6 Rejang Renteng dance, Pura Kelasa, Narmada, 2017. This dance is held at the Pujawali festival for this temple. Rejang Renteng features elder women performing a choreographed piece and is a marker of modern Balinese religiosity. This was a particularly beautiful performance. </div><div><br></div><div>6.7 Canang Sari dance, Pura Kelasa, Narmada, 2017. This offering dance has a long history at Pura Kelasa and is a traditional dance forged by Balinese on Lombok. Formerly, this dance would feature a number of males but today men and women and sometimes children are allowed to participate. This change indicates a modernist revision. </div><div><br></div>