Commons people: managing music and culture in contemporary Yogyakarta

Juliastuti, N. (2019)

Doctoral Thesis

My research is about musicians, visual artists, music collectors, fans, curators and cultural activists, participating in the popular discourse of music through relevant music activities. It narrates these people, with some of their music-based plans and initiatives. It also narrates the implementation of the plans and initiatives takes place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It takes place in an urban media infrastructure setting. I employ self-organizing, collectivism, and institutionalization of cultural production as useful concepts to define the alternative milieu. It is the milieu which shapes the production of tools and ways of organizing a series of action on managing music, culture, and life. Music, which also serves as a commons, emerges as a horizon of possibilities, or a means, to be managed and maintained for different purposes. I propose sustainability as a shared imagination of what doing music means. The articulation of such imagination informs the structure of the dissertation. The structure articulates the questions brought about by managing commons; they are the questions about a sense of security, sustainability, and documentation. It provides insights into what aspects that the people need to work on when they think about music.

• Music culture
• Commons
• Sharing
• Piracy
• Net label
• Participatory
• Documentation culture

• All authors: Juliastuti, N.
• Supervisor: Spyer, P.E.
• Co-supervisor: Barendregt, B.A.
• Committee: Keurs, P.J. ter; Schulte Nordholt, H.; Baulch, E.; Weinstraub, A.N.
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University
• Date: 2019-05-21