Music 1170A/B Lecture : Music Lecture #9 Indonesian Music continued
16 Oct 2011
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Act of support or encouragement for an individual, group, business, institution. The everyday music consumers (acting as patrons if we buy tickets to a concert or buy the cd) Historically seen as wealthy people providing a large amount of financial support, but now individuals with not much money, but in groups of large numbers can act as patrons. Patrons might limit what a musician can do: creativity stifled, if no one is supporting it might not last for long. Courts: i. e. 2 courts in surakarta, 2 in yogyakarta (yogya, 4 courts = result of dutch colonial interference in local politics in 19th c, this period was seen as a golden age for the arts in indonesia. Even though controlled by the dutch, these courts were competing with each other to show who is more power. One way was to act as patrons, employing musicians, puppet masters etc. lasted until.
