Margaret J Kartomi

Biographic Data

ID97653
NAMEMargaret J Kartomi
GIVEN NAMESMargaret J
FAMILY NAMEKartomi
SIGNATUREKARTOMI M J
AFFILIATIONSMonash University
ORCID0000-0002-1062-3565
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS80
TOTAL CITATIONS93
AUTHOR COUNT80
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX4

  • Performing the Arts of Indonesia

    Margaret J Kartomi, Margaret Kartomi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues in…2020Cited by: 3

  • From Agricultural Tool to Identity Symbol

    Margaret J Kartomi, Margaret KartomiARTICLEEthnomusicology2017Cited by: 2References: 3

    For centuries the Islanders in remote Bunguran played pestle-and-mortar music with cosmological associations to lighten the chore of stamping husks off rice grain. Different villages developed their own musical syntax, terminology, and repertoire to play at domestic celebrations. Discovery of natural gas in the 1960s led to weakened communal life, while the subsequent stamping of corn and seeds instead of rice required less group energy for music…

  • Bende

    Margaret J KartomiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2015

  • Bulohmeurindu

    Margaret J Kartomi, Gini GorlinskiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2015

  • Genggong

    Margaret J Kartomi, Andrew C McgrawCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2015

  • Botul

    Margaret J Kartomi, Gini GorlinskiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2015

  • Tudduglag

    Margaret J Kartomi, Andrew C McgrawCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2015

  • Gender (instrument)

    Margaret J Kartomi, Ruby Ornstein et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2015

  • Boboman

    Margaret J KartomiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2015

  • Aramba

    Margaret J Kartomi, Andrew C McgrawCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2014

  • Concepts, Terminology and Methodology in Music Performativity Research

    Margaret J Kartomi, Margaret KartomiARTICLEMusicology Australia2014Cited by: 1

    A music performance may be defined as the live presentation of a music event by musicians and other participants or stakeholders at a given time and place, usually in the presence of an audience. The concept of music performativity, on the other hand, includes not only the artist's/artists' production of sounds and movements, persona (stage presence), competence, approach, and style, but also influential factors such as the acoustics and style of…

  • The traditional Sitting Song-Dances

    Margaret J Kartomi, Zelman CowenARTICLEArchipel2014

    From the 1960s, both the Gayo minority in the highlands of Aceh and the Acehnese majority living in the coastal plains have achieved increased national and international exposure of their traditional song-dances, some of which are performed in the “ standing” position and others in the “ sitting” position. This article focuses on the Gayo saman and the Acehnese ratôh duek (lit. “ sitting chattering”) song-dances, both of which are performed in th…

  • Music \= Cultures in Contact

    Margaret J Kartomi, Stephen BlumBOOKMusic = Cultures in Contact2014Cited by: 2

    Contact between cultures may also lead to rejection as well as suppression of certain types of music. This process leads to such unfavorable circumstances as abandonment of entire works, genres or concepts or loss of instruments; yet such conflicts may also generate new and more positive creative achievements. Contributors include Andrew Alter, Tan Sooi Beng, Zdravko Blazekovic, Stephen Blum, Lê Tuân Hùng, Margaret J. Kartomi, Marcello Sorce Kell…

  • The Saman Gayo Lues Sitting Song-Dance and ITS Recognition as an Item of Intangible Cultural Heritage

    Open AccessMargaret J Kartomi, Margaret KartomiARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2013Cited by: 1References: 4

    The saman song-dance of the Aceh Gayo Lues people, who inhabit the central mountainous areas of the province of Aceh, is one of the most dramatic and famous of Indonesia's performing arts and a key symbol of Gayo cultural identity, yet it has not to date been a subject of ethnomusicological research

  • Musical Journeys in Sumatra

    Margaret J Kartomi, Margaret KartomiBOOKMusical Journeys in Sumatra2012

    Although Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world and home to an estimated 44 million Indonesians, its musical arts and cultures have not been the subject of a book-length study until now. Documenting and explaining the ethnographic, cultural, and historical contexts of Sumatra's performing arts, this book also traces the changes in their style, content, and reception from the early 1970s onward. The book offers a fascinating ethnographic…

  • Traditional and Modern Forms of Pencak Silat in Indonesia

    Margaret J Kartomi, Margaret KartomiARTICLEMusicology Australia2011

    Pencak silat (‘the art of self defence’) is a contemporary umbrella term used in Indonesia and Malaysia and other parts of Southeast Asia to designate the hundreds of traditional and modern martial art genres that are performed either solo or as a duel, and with or without musical accompaniment. The two components of the term designate the two parts of the one pencak silat genre: pencak, a performance art, and silat, a fighting and self defence a…

  • Play songs by children and their educational implications

    Open AccessMargaret J Kartomi, Margaret KartomiARTICLEAboriginal History Journal2011

    In the broad enculturative process, children learn to sing and play the music of their particular cultural tradition, which is controlled by adults. In all cultures children are sung or taught songs by adults for children, including such songs as lullabies, nursery rhymes and songs of advice. Clearly distinguishable from this repertoire of songs for children, however, are songs by children. These are songs created by children at play for the purp…

  • The development of the Acehnese sitting song-dances and frame-drum genres as part of religious conversion and continuing piety

    Open AccessMargaret J Kartomi, Margaret KartomiARTICLEBijdragen tot de taal- land- en…2010Cited by: 3References: 1

    The development of the Acehnese sitting song-dances and frame-drum genres as part of religious conversion and continuing piety This article aims to connect two important genres of Aceh

  • Toward a Methodology of War and Peace Studies in Ethnomusicology

    Margaret J Kartomi, Margaret KartomiARTICLEEthnomusicology2010Cited by: 9References: 7

    Research Article| October 01 2010 Toward a Methodology of War and Peace Studies in Ethnomusicology: The Case of Aceh, 1976-2009 Margaret Kartomi Margaret Kartomi Monash University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2010) 54 (3): 452-483. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.54.3.0452 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Margaret Kartomi; Towar…

  • Zeitgenossische Musik in Indonesien

    Margaret J Kartomi, M KartomiARTICLEMusic and Letters2006

    This is the first comprehensive book on the historical background and development of the music scene in Indonesia from the early twentieth century to 2004. As its author argues, the development of classical/traditional ‘local’ or ethnic music, new music, jazz, world music, and popular music scenes may be explained through examining the contradictions that exist between local traditions, national expectations, and international influences. Dieter …

  • On Metaphor and Analogy in the Concepts and Classification of Musical Instruments in Aceh

    Open AccessMargaret J Kartomi, Margaret KartomiARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2005Cited by: 1References: 2

    Artists, scholars and audiences in Aceh, the northernmost province of Sumatra, conceive of their percussive, wind and string instruments as symbolising Aceh's "glorious past" and attach a variety of metaphorical and analogous meanings to them. Implicit in the culture, and formulated explicitly by Acehnese scholars, is a classification that divides the instruments at the most general level into three main categories, or metaphorical socio-historic…

  • Some Implications of Local Concepts of Space in the Dance, Music, and Visual Arts of Aceh

    Open AccessMargaret J Kartomi, Margaret KartomiARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2004Cited by: 2References: 4

    Design in Acehnese dance, music, and visual arts is guided by four general concepts of space. Theupstream-downstreamconcept, governed by the centuries-old tendency to travel to the forests upstream and the coastal towns downstream, is associated with Animist-Hindu-Buddhist mysticism and commercial success respectively, resulting in methods of creating arts and crafts that belong either to upstream or downstream areas or both (in the latter case, …

  • Debates about and recent effects of globalisation on music in Australia

    Margaret J Kartomi, Margaret KartomiARTICLEMusicology Australia2003References: 2

    This essay takes as its point of departure a critical review of Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs, edited by Tony Bennett and David Carter (2ooi). Its cultural studies approach, particularly as related to Australian interests, makes this an important book for readers of Musicology Australia. I shall therefore recount the book's main arguments at some length, referring to other related literature by authors who have published on…

  • Suling

    Margaret J KartomiCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Gambang

    Hardja Susilo, Ernst Heins et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001