"Diaspora Indonesia dan Gamelan Jawa di Inggris: Dampak Relokasi Tradisi terhadap Pembentukan Identitas dan Komunitas"

Abstract

This study has examined the various realms of diasporic gamelan musical communities in Britain. While being displaced from their homeland, these members of the Indonesian community reinforce their national identity through gamelan music making activities in the realm of a community of practice. These practices involve a constant interplay between their participation in learning the music and reifi cation in performing it for other members of the diaspora, as well as the British public. Within both realms of practice, as agents of their own identity and community formation, these migrants practice authentication through the establishment of claims on tradition and modernity-as this phenomenon is a part of the greater phenomena of deterritorialization, cultural displacement, and globalization.