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gamelan

style of traditional music originated in the island of Java in Indonesia
Intangible music_genre Q194492
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Summary

gamelan is a music genre[1]. gamelan ranks in the top 0.77% of music genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,733 views/month, #15 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: music tradition[3]
  • Location: Riau Islands[4]
  • Subclass of: Southeast Asian classical music[5]
  • Commons category: Gamelan[6]
  • Country of origin: Indonesia[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Gamelan[8]
  • Commons gallery: Gamelan[9]
  • Described at URL: https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/01607[10], https://ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/01607[11], https://ich.unesco.org/es/RL/01607[12]
  • Location of creation: Java[13], Bali[14]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15]
  • Different from: gamelan[16]
  • Indigenous to: Indonesia[17]
  • Practiced by: gamelan[18], gamelan player[19]
  • Intangible cultural heritage status: Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity[20], National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Malaysia[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[23]

Why It Matters

gamelan has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] gamelan is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

Indonesia Java

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . heritage.gov.my. Retrieved . heritage.gov.my. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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