Ediwar, Ediwar and Fredrik, Tirtosuryo Esoputra and Erman, Har (2017) The Performing Art of Barongsai as the Cultural Signifier of Tionghoa Community in Padang City. The Social Sciences, 12 (6). pp. 1048-1055. ISSN 1818-5800
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Abstract
Barongsai is one of traditional performing arts of Tionghoa community that is most popular and often performed in public. This Performing art has characteristic that is often assumed as the cultural signifier of Tionghoa ethnicity and it has lived with minangkabau people for a long time. The aims of this research are to reveal the art concept of barongsai performance as cultural signifier and to explain why this performing art becomes the signifier of Tionghoa ethnicity in Padang City. Method use in this research is qualitative method with etic and etnic approaches. The performing art of Barongsai has the elements of performing arts too. These elements have signs and these signsare explained by using Ferdinand de Saussure's Theory of Semiology that is in the scope of non-linguistic signs that have arbitrary and conventional characteristics. Sign has two inseparable sides that are signifier and signified. signifier has material characteristic while signified has abstract one. The performing art Barongsai is stated as the cultural signifier of Tionghoa etnicity of Padang City based on signs found in this performing art. The existences of this art are as a tool, the form of self-declaration and the media of social acculturation. Non-Tionghoa ethnicities admit that Barongsai is a signifier that refers to tionghoa ethnicity with all of its characteristics. In Tionghoa ethnicity, Barongsai acts as the signifier while repelling negative aura, rejecting calamity and incurring fortune acts as the signified.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Barongsai; culture; Tionghoa community, Padang City; Non-linguistic. |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general |
| Depositing User: | Tulus Setiawan |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2021 04:51 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2022 10:04 |
| URI: | http://repository.isi-padangpanjang.ac.id/id/eprint/1497 |
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