ABSTRACT
Henry Spiller describes the success of traditional Javanese/Sundanese bamboo instruments (karinding, celempung) in performing Western ‘heavy metal’ music, to develop his theory of a dual modernity in this region’s music. The Western-influenced ‘hegemonial modernity’of the 20th century led to the near-extinction of traditional instruments; since the turn of the 21st century, however, an ‘alternative modernity’ of popularising local traditions enabled a flowering of these instruments and their use.
