ABSTRACT
In this paper, we respond to Nancy Florida’s work published in 1978, which describes how adiluhung as a trait of Javanese literature was a deliberate construction, which separated it from the non-adiluhung. Here, we investigate whether the separation is still valid in contemporary Java as seen in its popular culture by analysing the lyrics of the songs produced by the Jogja Hip Hop Foundation, especially Kulonuwun and Gangsta Gapi. In this paper, we present remix as the theoretical tools, followed by the nature of Javanese language registers. The lyrics of the songs will be analysed based on their high or low register. In contrast to the separation above, the main impact of the remix in those lyrics is the levelling of adiluhung and non-adiluhung elements of the Javanese culture.
