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Song in the Sumatran Highlands

People: Si Mun

Stage Name: Si Mun.
Other Names:
Role: Padendang.
Sex: Female.
Time Frame: Contemporary Figure.
Source: personal encounter at a performance in 2016, then when I interviewed her husband, Man Ambo.
Born:
Died:
Place of Origin:
Place of Residence: Kubang Rasau, Nagari Balai Panjang.
Year started performing:
Training:
Relationships to other performers: Man Ambo, tukang saluang, is her husband.
Performances: Performance: Balai Cacang, July 16, 2016

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Performance: Balai Cacang, July 16, 2016 17 Malam Bagurau image_header 2021-06-18T12:29:41+00:00 -0.21657, 100.64429 07/16/2016
Date: July 16, 2016
Place: Balai Cacang, Payokumbuah
Style: Saluang Klasik
Occasion: Neighborhood entertainment
Set up: Stage, tables and chairs, loose chairs, and low tables for games. A warung (café) is set up in the back, serving tea and coffee.
Performers:
- Padendang: Si Mun, Siti
- Tukang Saluang: Not yet identified
- Janang: None
Audience: Approximately 50 people, including a handful of women using headscarves.
Ethnographers: Jennifer & Pak Ketua
Attendance: 10.38 p.m.-just before midnight, when we left to go to another performance
Notes: There might have been more women present because we were then early in the evening and it was a neighborhood event. The audience interaction was relatively low, perhaps in response to the quality of the performers.
People: Man Ambo Stage Name: Man Ambo.
Other Names: Herman S.
Role: Tukang Saluang.
Sex: Male.
Time Frame: Contemporary Figure.
Source: personally met through interview in 2016.
Born:
Died:
Place of Origin:
Place of Residence: Kubang Rasau, Nagari Balai Panjang.
Year started performing:
Training:
Relationships to other performers: His wife, Si Mun, is a padendang.
Performances:
Interviews: July 17,2016.
Songs composed:
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