Appendix 6 - International Music Council

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follow
whatever the people do. They think that the method used by “academic
musicians”
should be kept even by those outside of the campuses. Thus, the free
expression
of music and songs lessen and if this occurs continuously they may lost their
indigenous
skills to create and compose music.
Cite examples of similar promulgation by the citizenry or sections of the citizenry.
See the above examples.
• Does it appear that in your region there are some states that are less likely to ratify the
UNESCO
Convention for cultural diversity if issues of internal cultural diversity or open
cultural
borders are pressed?
Cultural and musical repression occurs because of the domination of local groups or by
groups of music that get better position due to the mass media and popular supporters.
It is likely that they will accept the UNESCO Convention because in principle the
Convention is in line with the state policy. According to bilaterals.org 148 countries
approved to protect diversity (USA and Israel against it, and four abstain) in October
2005 in a meeting in Paris. Perhaps, one of the countries that approved the convention
was Indonesia (there is no list of which countries approved it). But, Indonesia got
ratification for Wayang Kulit (shadow puppet show) as the world recognized intagible
culture from UNESCO, signifying that Indonesia would ratify the convention.
The domination of one genre of music over another also happens but it is not part of the
policy of
the state as such but because people choose the genre that they think to be
appropriate to their life. Nowadays, when democracy in many aspects of life is
encouraged, musical repression is much lessened.
6. The manner in which musical diversity is addressed by music workers and
expressed in various forms of musical creation; the relationship to identity
• Cite examples of cultures in which musicians and/or the various participants in the
music business (producers, presenters, record companies etc) are interested in musical
diversity – in the sense of the simultaneous practice or presentation within a society of
many forms of music.
• Cite examples where they are averse to musical diversity.
Since Lokananta was not active in documenting and collecting music from ethnic groups
in Indonesia, only Smithsonian Institution (USA) that supports efforts to record the
diversity of Indonesian music. Similar efforts to compile the diversity of music – like the
20 volumes of Series of Indonesian Music by Smithsonian Institution – is now
decreasing. Since the 1990s when Lokananta changed its status to be “passively to
develop culture” by reproducing the previous music recordings and recording music
selected by other companies, the production of ethnic recordings from life performances
was much lessened. Several recording companies in Central Java, for example, that used
to make recording of traditional music (IRA Record, Kusuma Record, etc) did not
actively make life recordings. Some of the companies did not want to take risk of their
business. Nowadays, it is difficult to find the recordings of ethnic music, especially the
most recent life recordings. Local recordings are now flourishing and they feature new
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