Can We Own Music?

Technology and InequalitiesThe Dangdut Music in Indonesia

Dr. Lilawati Kurnia University of Indonesia

• science and technology are instrumental to the creation and maintenance of inequality within and between societies.

• science and technology do not merely cause or alleviate inequality but are more profoundly implicated in social relations to distribution and access

• The more pervasive and persistence sources of social distribution are enshrined and entrenched in the science and technology systems.

• Inequality is the unequal distribution of something people value, income, health, entertainment etc.

• the term distribution is used in its dynamic meaning which refers to the process of producing and re-producing inequalities

• the roles that science and technology play in those processes and ways in which one can intervene to generate less unequal outcomes.

Globalization?

• international trade grows, it should create a better balance between richer and poorer nations

• as western corporations setting up manufacturing plants in developing nations and exporting their computing and accounting to places such as India and the Philippines should help wealth flow in to these countries.

• western countries have pushed poor nations to eliminate trade barriers, while keeping up their own barriers, thus ensuring that they gain a disproportionate share of the benefits

“Intellectual property”

• A rather loose if not vague meaning or definition

• Better to defer between patent, copyright, or trademarks

• It is even more obsure in the area of law

• This notion is based on an analogy of tangible objects

• The property is a physical property

• Whereas information is free, it can be copied everywhere and by everybody

Dangdut ( Dank Doot)

• Dangdut is reqonized as an indonesia music although it is a multicultural one, it is a mix of malay, hindi-indian, arabic, etc

• It begann early 70sAnd now it is widespread even to other

countriesThe case of Inul the singer is a unique

phenomenon

The Phenomenon of Inul• Inul is a female singer from East Java• Coming from a small city and

autodidacted in dangdut• Coming to the top of the top because of

her notorious dance called „ngebor“ or „drilling“

• Banned from teve and acused of pornographic move.

• During concert she gives her vcd for free