Methodology At Indonesian parties, wedding receptions, bars, and karaoke clubs, people sing. Dangdut was not only deeply embedded in Indonesian souls, but its power was located in the physical bodily production of vocal sound. Further, men are allowed to have extramarital affairs while their wives wait for their husbands to come home. Far away from the homeland and nature lays a space, perhaps a city, characterized by loneliness, dislocation, and yearning. Rather, the band presented semi-dramatic choreographies by female dancers who enacted the characters depicted in the songs.
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