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Interview: Mak Sawir, July 24, 2016.
12021-08-03T20:20:02+00:00Jennifer Fraser404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c321Interview with Mak Sawirplain2021-08-03T20:20:02+00:00Jennifer Fraser404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3Interview, Mak Sawir with Pak Ketua, July 24, 2016, Bukittinggi.
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12021-08-02T19:50:25+00:00Types of Pantun7List of types of pantunplain2021-08-04T17:29:40+00:00According to Mak Sawir, a male singer celebrated for his poetic skills, there are three different kinds of pantun: pantun parasaian (pantun about longing and loss), pantun nasehat (those that give moralistic advice), and pantun mudo-mudo malereang (those about love or include jokes and draw on metaphors). He reiterated these categories in two separate interviews: one in 2010 and one in 2016.
These pantun types align to some extent with song type. For example, it would be weird to have a pantun parasaian in a lagu gembira or a mudo malereng in a ratok. I have examples of porno, however, in all kinds of songs.