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MUDRA Jurnal Seni Budaya
ISSN : 08543461     EISSN : 25410407     DOI : https://doi.org/10.31091/mudra.v37i4.2084
AIMS The journal presents as a medium to share knowledge and understanding art, culture, and design in the area of regional, national, and international levels. In accordance with the meaning of the word “Mudra”, which is a spiritual gesture and energy indicator, it is hoped that the journal will be able to vibrate the breath of art knowledge to its audience, both academics, and professionals. The journal accommodates articles from research, creation, and study of art, culture, and design without limiting authors from a variety of disciplinary/interdisciplinary approaches such as art criticism, art anthropology, history, aesthetics, sociology, art education, and other contextual approaches. SCOPE MUDRA, as the Journal of art and culture, is dedicated as a scientific dialectic vehicle that accommodates quality original articles covering the development of knowledge about art, ideas, concepts, phenomena originating from the results of scientific research, creation, presentation of fine arts, performing arts and new media from researchers, artists, academics, and students covering areas of study: Performing Arts: dance, puppetry, ethnomusicology, music, theater,performing arts education, performing arts management Fine Arts: fine arts, sculpture, craft art, fine arts education,fine arts management, including new media arts Design: interior design, graphic communication design, fashion design,product design, accessories and/or jewelry design Recording Media : photography, film, television, documentary, video art, animation,game Culture : linguistic, architecture, verbal tradition, as well as other communal tradition The object of research is explored in a variety of topics that are unique, relevant, and contextual with environmental and sustainability aspects, local wisdom, humanity and safety factors. In addition to that, the topic of research needs to be original, creative, innovative, excellence, and competitive.
Articles 502 Documents
The Transformation of the Dideng Oral Tradition of Rantau Pandan into Jambi Malay Opera Mahdi Bahar; Ikhsan Satria Irianto; Indra Gunawan; Riswani
Mudra Jurnal Seni Budaya Vol 41 No 2 (2026)
Publisher : Institut Seni Indonesia Denpasar

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31091/mudra.v41i2.3200

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Dideng is a folk theatre tradition from Rantau Pandan Village that is currently facing the risk of decline due to limitations in its regeneration process. Despite this condition, Dideng oral narrative art contains rich theatrical, gestural, and musical potentials that can be further developed within contemporary performance contexts. This study aims to transform the artistic potential of Dideng into a Jambi Malay opera prototype as an effort of cultural revitalization. This research employs a qualitative approach with a descriptive-analytic method within a Research and Development (R&D) framework. Data were collected through interviews, observation, documentation, and literature review involving practitioners, cultural experts, and the creative team.The result of this applied research is a Jambi Malay opera prototype entitled Elegi Puti Dayang Ayu. The transformation process demonstrates how the episodic structure of oral storytelling is reconfigured into a linear dramaturgical form to achieve causal coherence suitable for modern stage performance. The narrative is centered on the breakdown of the uncle–nephew relationship (avunculate), which provides a culturally grounded basis for the emergence of tragedy within Malay social structure. The opera text is constructed through the conversion of a drama script into a poetic libretto, integrating dideng, pantun, and seloko as elements of indigenous dramaturgy. The atmosphere is shaped within a tragic framework, emphasizing emotional depth through monologue and musical expression.This study contributes to the discourse on intangible cultural heritage revitalization by demonstrating that the transformation of oral tradition into contemporary performance is not merely adaptive, but involves a negotiation between cultural continuity and aesthetic innovation.
Nyari Haleuangna Manjing Dongkarina: Dongkari and the Vocal–Instrumental Aesthetic System of Tembang Sunda Cianjuran Mohamad Yusuf Wiradiredja; Arif Budiman
Mudra Jurnal Seni Budaya Vol 41 No 2 (2026)
Publisher : Institut Seni Indonesia Denpasar

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31091/mudra.v41i2.3721

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This study examines the aesthetics of Tembang Sunda Cianjuran as a relational vocal–instrumental performance system shaped through reciprocal interaction between panembang (vocalists) and pamirig (instrumental accompanists) within the principal Cianjur–Bandung lineage. Previous scholarship has largely emphasized vocal technique and performer excellence, while the broader relational, instrumental, and integrative dimensions of Cianjuran aesthetics have remained insufficiently theorized. This research aims to formulate an integrative aesthetic framework grounded in the concept of dongkari as Cianjuran’s foundational normative principle, encompassing dongkari haleuang (vocal formation), dongkari lagu (melodic structure and ornamentation), and dongkari pirigan (instrumental relationality). Employing an interpretative qualitative design with an emic, practice-based methodology, the study draws upon more than five decades of embodied practitioner experience, intergenerational in-depth interviews with leading vocal and instrumental tradition bearers, and critical literature analysis. Data were interpreted through an adaptive operationalization of A.A.M. Djelantik’s aesthetic theory of form, content, and presentation, recontextualized according to the indigenous performance logic of Cianjuran. The findings reveal that Tembang Sunda Cianjuran aesthetics are fundamentally relational, proportional, and affectively regulated rather than virtuosity-centered, synthesized through kesepakatan perasaan (shared affective agreement) as the central aesthetic mechanism governing real-time musical coherence. The study contributes methodologically by demonstrating the value of integrating embodied emic inquiry into musicological analysis, and theoretically by positioning kesepakatan perasaan as an indigenous framework that enriches broader debates on relational aesthetics, intersubjective musical attunement, and cross-cultural performance studies.