THE TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF GULA GENDING IN THE CREATIVITY OF SASAK ARTISTS

Abstract

The existence of the traditional music Sasak has not been
widely known among the Indonesia people. When if, there
might be only known in gendang beleq which is now recognized
as one of the UNESCO’S Intangible cultural heritage.
Besides gendang beleq, there are still many instruments and
other of the traditional music ensembles that are increasingly
modernist. One of the gula gending instrument which is currently
maintained by a group of people in Lekoq Village,
Cakranegara, Mataram. This instrument, which is the classified
has a hang drum, is an original instrument that was born
in from the creativity Sasak artis. Therefore gula gending will
be classified as an art which has the identity of sasak culture.
As a Sasak people’s cultural copyright, there is an interesting
phenomenon to be studied, namely with regard to the development
of its function where this instrument is not only used
as mean of trading by the fiber sweetened sugar traders but
also used as a media for the development of traditional music
artistic creativity among the Sasak artists. In the general, the
aims of study this phenomenon is provide the information
related to the existence and development a gula gending art.
Through the presentation of the results of this study it is expected
that the wider of the community can be recognize the
gula gending music as one of the various traditional music
part of the archipelago cultural treasure.