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Merdu yang Dipaksa Sunyi (Arman Dhani, esai pengantar Dunia Milik Kita, 2016)

Merdu yang Dipaksa Sunyi: Arman Dhani's Introductory Essay to Dunia Milik Kita (2016)

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Seven-page liner essay by Arman Dhani, issued with the free download of Dialita's album Dunia Milik Kita (2016), framing it as hearing again voices silenced by 'collective sin' after 1965 and introducing the ten songs and their young arrangers. A guide to the women's choir's repertoire.

Esai pengantar tujuh halaman oleh Arman Dhani, dibagikan bersama unduhan gratis album Dialita Dunia Milik Kita (2016), yang membingkainya sebagai upaya mendengar kembali suara yang dibungkam 'dosa kolektif' pasca-1965 dan memperkenalkan sepuluh lagu serta penata musik mudanya. Panduan repertoar paduan suara perempuan.

People

Arman Dhani

Organisations

Dialita Choir

Places

Jakarta

Topics

art, literature and musicmemory, testimony and justicePlantungan and women prisoners1965 coup and aftermath

Tags

songtrauma and silencestigma

Details

Date
2016
Creator
Dialita
Document type
audio (album liner essay / music review (born-digital PDF from a Word file, distributed with the album download))
Language
Indonesian; English; Spanish
Perspective
Journalism/commentary (post-1998)
Source role
secondary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
Access
Distributed as part of the free download package of Paduan Suara Dialita, Dunia Milik Kita (YESNO 083) from the Yogyakarta netlabel Yes No Wave Music (yesnowave.com; record the exact release page URL). Open access, released with a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence (see License.pdf in the same folder). PDF metadata: created 16 August 2016. Retrieved 2026-10-13 from Nath's Gerwani folder copy. Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Dhani, A. (2016). Merdu yang dipaksa sunyi [Melodious voices forced into silence] [Liner essay, PDF]. In Paduan Suara Dialita, Dunia milik kita [Album, YESNO 083]. Yes No Wave Music.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.10 Audio, Video and Song/Dialita (2016) - Dunia Milik Kita, album MP3 and liner notes (Yes No Wave YESNO083)/Dialita (2016) - Merdu yang Dipaksa Sunyi, liner notes [Yes No Wave YESNO083].pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.959) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.10 Audio, Video and Song › Dialita (2016) - Dunia Milik Kita, album MP3 and liner notes (Yes No Wave YESNO083)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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