Komunika (Mar 2015)
GOYANG DANGDUT DAN REPRESENTASI IDEOLOGI DI TELEVISI
Abstract
As a genre of popular music, dangdut is part of pop culture entertainment industry. Dangdut has a "community of listeners" , in addition to obtaining maintenance and reasonable award. People no longer question of where such music originated and who acts as the source. But in pop culture it is also defined as "the location of the fight" , where many of the meanings defined and debated. It is not enough to underestimate the pop culture as only serving to the complement of the system in capitalism and patriarchy, allowing it to anesthetize people with false consciousness. Pop culture can also be seen as the location where the contested meanings and dominant ideologies can be disturbed; between the market and the various ideologies; between investors and producers; between director and actor; between publishers and authors; between capitalists and workers; among women and men; groups of heterosexual and homosexual; groups of blacks and whites; old and young; between what the meaning of all things, and what it means, a battle of control ( towards the meaning) that sustain continously. Thus, finally, in the television, dangdut do not only just offer entertainment, but also the ideologies that continue to be produced and reproduced in the name of entertainment world called dangdut .
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