Indonesia's Culture Minister Fadli Zon has expressed his intention to register dangdut folk music as part of UNESCO’s ...

LOS ANGELES, May 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Music is the universal language that brings people together. Sample Music Entertainment of Hollywood along with Sample Artist Management Indonesia brings ...

When he organized the first gamelan performance at the University of Richmond, ethnomusicologist and UR assistant professor Andrew McGraw was surprised that the folk music from the Southeast Pacific ...

Not so many years ago, an Asian band typically meant one of three things: a bunch of guys playing covers in a bar, a group of anonymous session pros backing a teen idol, or an underground group ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Malaysia is separated from Indonesia's Sumatra island by just 40 miles (64 km) of water, but an ocean has opened up between them over who owns a traditional dance, the latest in a ...

TODAY’S visitor to Indonesia will find artists at work in two rather distinct traditions. Let us call one the folk-art tradition, though much of such work is now more sophisticated than primitive, and ...