
Professor Margaret Kartomi of the Faculty of Arts was recently in Sumatra to deliver keynote addresses at conferences and meet with other music researchers and educators.At the Second International Conference of Uni Syiah Kuala, hosted by the Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, Professor Kartomi presented her paper on the results of recent United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognition of the Saman Gayo song-dance as an item of intangible cultural heritage.
At the International Seminar and Festival of the Southeast Asian Malay Arts, presented by the Academy of the Performing Arts of Indonesia in Padangpanjang, West Sumatra, she presented her keynote address, ‘Mapping of Malay Culture in Sumatra’.
She participated in seminars at the University of Riau in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, one of them with Monash Adjunct Senior Research Fellow and alumna Dr Karen Thomas, on Sumatran theatre form. During this, she also met with the Rektor of the University of Riau to discuss a joint presentation with Monash on Malay music and dance in the Riau islands next year.
Finally, she met with ethnomusicologists from the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of North Sumatra, which Professor Kartomi helped to found in 1977 in Medan.
The conferences were hosted by institutions in four Sumatran provinces, namely the Syiahkuala University in Aceh, the Indonesian Academy of the Performing Arts in Padangpanjang, West Sumatra, and the University of Riau in Riau Province. Professor Kartomi also met with music staff of the University of North Sumatra.
Her lecture tour is a partial result of the publication of her book on the music-cultures of Sumatra, entitled Musical Journeys in Sumatra, the first ever book on the subject.
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Margaret Kartomi and other AAH Fellows receive Indonesian Cultural Awards
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Monash hosts first international conference on Aceh’s performing and visual arts
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Margaret Kartomi receives major award in Indonesia
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Article published in: The Fighting Art of Pencak Silat and its Music: From Southeast Asian village to global movement
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Call for Papers: the Second International Conference and Cultural Event of Aceh
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Review of Julia Byl’s “Antiphonal Histories” by Margaret Kartomi
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Glowing review of “Musical Journeys in Sumatra” published in Inside Indonesia
“This is a delicious book – to be savoured, appreciated for its richness of detail and admired for its texture and cohesion. It made me greedy for more. I thought I could just dip in and read it over a week or so (it is a lengthy tome) but I was drawn into it from the first page of the Preface and just kept reading.”
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Professor Margaret Kartomi awarded Certificate of Honour for the promotion of Indonesian culture in Australia
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High honour the highlight of Indonesian field trip
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