These young women, all of them students at an institution that may appear to both Westerners and Indonesians to promote conservatism and conformity veiled in the authority of an androcentric religious cultural system, were in the eye of the stormy questions of the day. I therefore began to listen below the noise, much as one must listen to the phonograph, ignoring the sound of the machinery before the registered tones of the voice are caught. With the advent of cassette technology, however, a more complete democratization of the recording and distribution of mediated sound became possible, a phenomenon that is articulately described and theorized by Peter Manuel in his study of the Indian subcontinent, Cassette Culture While regional traditions, some of them now institutionalized in schools and universities of the arts, have come under the influence of authoritative courtly traditions, of colonial cultures, and of modern mediated forms from around the world, musical diversity in Indonesia nevertheless has not been leveled. Haji and Haja , which indicates that a person has completed the pilgrimage to Mecca.
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