Abstract
This article discusses the challenges of teaching and sustaining music and other performing arts on the island of Lombok in Indonesia. It follows my field research trajectory on the island over a period of 34 years and analyzes the efforts of government interventions, non-government actors, and teachers and educational institutions in the transmission and sustainability of the arts. Interpretations indicate that a combination of globalization, urbanization, social media, everyday mediatization, and Islamization over recent decades negatively impacted traditional musics in specific ways, by problematizing sustainability. However, several agents–individuals inside and outside the government who understood the situation and had the foresight to take appropriate action–developed programs and organizations to maintain or aestheticize the performing arts, sustain musician livelihoods, and engage a new generation of male youth in music and dance. These efforts, supplemented by the formation of groups of leaders dedicated to the study of early culture on Lombok and fresh initiatives in music education, have ushered in new opportunities and visibility for traditional music and performing arts and performing artists.
Highlights
As a society urbanizes and modernizes, the traditional musics from rural districts and pre-modern eras begin to wane in approval as younger generations turn toward globalized and national popular musics, styles hybridizing local with national or global, or other contemporary musics
Traditional music and performing arts were somewhat endangered into the 1980s on Lombok
Some of these teachers and students began approaching schools to teach in-school or extra-curricular ensembles as Lombok, in the urbanizing areas, had gradually opened up
Summary
As a society urbanizes and modernizes, the traditional musics from rural districts and pre-modern eras begin to wane in approval as younger generations turn toward globalized and national popular musics, styles hybridizing local with national or global, or other contemporary musics. This trend has been global but has impacted developing countries that were newly independent after World War II and struggling to decolonize and modernize. Officials and educators were concerned that if steps were not taken to maintain traditional performing arts, citizens could begin to emulate western values and lose their Indonesian and Lombok identities
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