When social actors are no longer in places of power and position, the genre may decline in terms of public acceptance. In support of the material used by the composers, activities were held promoting the genre. In Indonesia, music making as a communal task is a common tradition. The criteria for selection of the songs and reasons for those criteria to be embedded in the songs, as well as documents that outline and support the competition, are investigated. More distinctively, commentators seem to be preoccupied with labelling and appraising lagu seriosa against one or other forms of the west, rather than objectively considering other determining contextual factors that contributed to its growth.
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