Bangsawan

Bangsawan (Jawi: بڠساون) is a type of traditional Malay opera or theatre performed by a troupe and accompanied by music and sometimes dances. The bangsawan theatrical performance encompasses music, dance, and drama.
First attestedunknownfrom the timeline
PractitionersUnknownno census we can cite
Claims on record00 sourced evidence rows
Sources cited1deduplicated by publisher

The tradition

Bangsawan (Jawi: بڠساون) is a type of traditional Malay opera or theatre performed by a troupe and accompanied by music and sometimes dances. The bangsawan theatrical performance encompasses music, dance, and drama. It is widely spread in the Malay cultural realm in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Brunei. The artform is indigenous to the Malay Peninsula, Riau Islands, Sumatra, and coastal Borneo.

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Bangsawan”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.

Bangsawan is Indonesian traditional folk theatre of Malay, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1

The source record links this tradition to 5 external registers, which can be verified through the citation.1

What it mixes with

0 linked entries

Artists and institutions

claim-and-verify, same door for everyone
No practitioner pages linked yet.

Sources

0 claims and 0 timeline entries on this page draw on 1 sources, deduplicated by publisher.

SourceTypePublisher
Wikidata: Bangsawan (Q7311227)databaseWikidata

Do you practise or teach Bangsawan?

Correct what is wrong, add what is missing, and cite your source — every edit is a claim, and every claim needs one. The full history of this page is public and append-only.

Cite: “Bangsawan.” folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/bangsawan — text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
Sign in to report