Author Question: What are the two court cities in the cultural heartland of Central Java? What type of music is ... (Read 28 times)

jhjkgdfhk · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

What are the two court cities in the cultural heartland of Central Java? What type of music is associated with these two cities?

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Facts about Java. What is the population of Indonesia and Java?

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srodz · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Yogyakarta (Yogya), also the location of one of Java's two main royal courts and official home of the current sultan, and Surakarta (usually called Solo) where traditional gamelan music and related performing arts (drama/dance) have flourished in their most elaborate and refined forms.

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Indonesia's population is about 215 million; Java's is over 100 million.
What is the approximate size of Java?
Java is an island about the size of New York.
What is the size and location of Java's largest ethnic group, the Javanese?
Java's largest ethnic group is the Javaneseroughly 75 millionwho occupy the central and eastern part of Java.

What is the name of the ethnic group living in the western part of Java?
The Sundanese ethnic groupwho share language and arts that are distinct from the Javanese grouplive in the western third of Java.
What is the chief means of economic livelihood on Java?
Java remains mostly a farming society . . .