The magnetism of songs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2904020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kees Van Dijk (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, corresponding author), Kees Dijk (1. [email protected]) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 159 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-64 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-90003751 |
| OpenAlex | W1982261481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
One striking feature of the student demonstrations in Indonesia in the months before and after President Soeharto's fall from power was the choice of patriotic symbols.1 No protest rally seemed complete without students singing nationalist songs. Another indispensable feature of many of the demonstrations was a long march. Both the patriotic lyrics and the long marches are signs of the success of Indonesia's New Order indoctrination and the special brand of nationalism the military tried to inculcate. The long marches, invariably referred to as such in English, are reminiscent of the heroic march of soldiers of the Siliwangi army division returning from Central Java to their home base in West Java in 1948. Forced to withdraw to Indonesian Republican territory after the Renville Agreement of 17 January 1948, the troops, accompanied by their families, began their wearying return journey to West Java after the launching of the Second Dutch Military Action on 18 December 1948. Of course, the students' long marches were much shorter than this, often no more than a walk around the periphery of a campus or a hotel, or through one part of a town. Some of the nationalist songs, known in Indonesian as lagu perjuangan, 'struggle songs' (or occasionally as lagu pahlawan, 'heroes' songs'), glorify the Indonesian Revolution and the struggle for independence from the Dutch. That protesting students sang nationalist songs with such enthusiasm requires some explanation. Another term for one group of such songs is lagu wajib, 'compulsory songs', referring to the fact that schoolchildren are obliged to sing them (and a lot of other songs which glorify the nation or voice official ideology and as such form part of a larger indoctrination campaign
Art · Enthusiasm · Humanities · Independence (probability theory · Indoctrination · Indonesian · Linguistics · Literature · Lyrics · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Singing · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2023 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |