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1. 1 2020-07-16T19:14:21+00:00 Jennifer Fraser 404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3 Song: "Singgalang Alai" Jennifer Fraser 21 This song is part of a sub-category of songs called Singgalang that are named after the place, the nagari and mountain called Singgalang. plain 2021-05-14T11:45:17+00:00 Jennifer Fraser 404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3
2. 1 2020-07-10T12:16:35+00:00 Jennifer Fraser 404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3 Place: Singgalang Jennifer Fraser 9 Singgalang is a nagari in Kecamatan X Koto Kabupaten Tanah Data. google_maps 2021-04-28T12:29:03+00:00 -0.43916, 100.38928 Jennifer Fraser 404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3
3. 1 2021-06-23T12:00:15+00:00 Jennifer Fraser 404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3 Songs Named for Places Jennifer Fraser 3 Description and list of songs named for places plain 2021-06-23T12:18:03+00:00 Jennifer Fraser 404477000adfd4e5c7a1128cfac82e1fc740e8c3

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• 1 2020-07-16T19:14:21+00:00 Song: "Singgalang Alai" 21 This song is part of a sub-category of songs called Singgalang that are named after the place, the nagari and mountain called Singgalang. plain 2021-05-14T11:45:17+00:00 The title of this tune is one of the most contested in saluang. There are two very different tunes that people identify as "Singgalang Alai." I learned this the hard way when I was invited to sing a dendang that I knew at Bagurau di Udaro September 27, 2004. I offered one of my standards, "Singgalang Alai," to Mak Il St. Rajo Endah, the announcer and emcee of the program and my contact at RRI. I had sung this tune at performances before without incident but this time was different. When the tukang saluang, Inyiak Harimau, began this song and Mak Ajis St. Sati delivered his first pantun, I was alarmed: this was not the tune I knew as "Singgalang Alai." I whispered that to Mak Il, but he told me not to worry and just sing what I knew. So I did and the tukang saluang switched songs mid-tune, following me. Mak Ajis then sang a verse of the version I knew after me: clearly he knew this tune, too. Confused, I chatted with Inyiak Harimau during a break. He told me that the practice of calling the song I sang "Singgalang Alai" was newer  (personal conversation). The older convention was to call this tune "Singgalang Induak," as was indeed the title Sri and Pian used at the recording session in 2016. Finally, when I interviewed Ajis St. Sati a couple of months after the Bagurau di Udaro, he told me that the tune I know as "Singgalang Alai" is "Singgalang Gulai Rendang," offering the third title I heard for the same tune. He hummed the tune that he believed should be called "Singgalang Alai" (interview, Bukittinggi, 11/04/2004). 
  
  I am fascinated by this story. Just who was right? It doesn't matter as much to me as the idea that different performers have different practices and knowledge. To me that is the story. What it has complicated, however, is how to refer to the tune on this site. The best ethnographic process is to make sure to honor the titles used by the performers. Therefore, to clarify it's use on this site and to identify the different tunes I will use the terms  "Singgalang Alai [Old]"  for the version than Mak Ajis knows and "Singgalang Alai [New]" for the tune that many others identified as "Singgalang Alai."
  
  Translation of Title: "Singgalang" in the title refers not just to place affiliation but to the category of songs called Singgalang. "Alai" is a neighborhood in Padang.
  Explanation: The tune "Singgalang Alai [New]" or what others call "Singgalang Induak" is often the very first song of a saluang performance, following the Imbauan Saluang and Imbauan Singgalang. It is interesting that a song so key to saluang has such confusion surrounding its title. 
  Composer: Unknown. 
  Type of song: Singgalang.
  Place affiliations: This whole category of song is named after the place, the nagari and mountain called Singgalang.
  • Nagari: Singgalang.
  • Kecamatan: X Koto.
  • Luak: Tanah Data.
  • Darek or Rantau: Darek.

  Source: Mardjani's List of Songs (but it is unclear which tune was designated), Martis (who used the title refer to the tune marked here as "Singgalang Alai [New]").
  
  

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• 1 media/Singgalang visualization.png 2020-07-24T19:30:44+00:00 Type of Song: Singgalang 21 This is a description and list of songs that are Singgalang. plain 2021-05-14T13:46:34+00:00
• 1 media/Image_Ajis St Sati.jpeg media/Image_Ajis St Sati.jpeg 2020-10-20T18:46:40+00:00 People: Ajis St. Sati 17 Ajis St. Sati was a legendary padendang and composer image_header 2021-03-04T13:26:55+00:00 -0.30028, 100.3612 Novermber 18, 2004
• 1 2020-07-10T12:16:35+00:00 Place: Singgalang 9 Singgalang is a nagari in Kecamatan X Koto Kabupaten Tanah Data. google_maps 2021-04-28T12:29:03+00:00 -0.43916, 100.38928
• 1 media/Image_Singgalang from ISI.jpeg 2020-07-10T12:16:33+00:00 Place: Mount Singgalang 4 Mount Singgalang is an extinct volcano situated in the highlands of West Sumatra. google_maps 2020-11-04T21:15:17+00:00 -0.39, 100.33083