Fenomena Gender dalam Dongkari

Abstract

This article, " Gender Fenomena in Dongkari of Tembang sunda cianjuran Songs, " is a small part of my dissertation entitled " Gender dalam Tembang sunda cianjuran, " which is then elaborated in accordance with the theme of this article. This article is intended to study gender fenomena in one of a number of aspects of Tembang sunda cianjuran, dongkari. How far gender ideology in social life aff ects the performance of Tembang sunda cianjuran, especially in using dongkari in Tembang sunda cianjuran songs, and vise versa.From this study, it is obtained a conclusion asserting that gender fenomena can be found in dongkari. This are shown by the existence of masculine and feminine or-nament/dongkari which are each usually used by men and women singers in singing the Tembang sunda cianjuran songs. However, this can not be free from cross-gender fenomena which always par-ticipate in it so that in certain cases, masculine ornamnet/dongkari can be used by women singers, and vise versa. The relationship between gender fenomena found in ornament/dongkari and its using by men and women singers in performance of Tembang sunda cianjuran shows mutual relationship and infl uence between both the gender ideology which is embedded in the Sundanese life and the perfomance of music—Tembang sunda cianjuran.