ABSTRACT
In 1988 I did anthropological research in Bandung and its surroundings (West Java) on the Sundanese popular music and dance genre known as jaipongan. In the last month of my stay, my cameraman Frank Krom came over to Indonesia and we shot the material for a documentary on video called Sundanese popularculture alive!!!. It is a documentary about jaipongan and other Sundanese art forms. The title of the documentary aptly describes the state of the arts that I encountered during my stay: Sundanese culture is a dynamic culture in which categories like ‘classical’ or ‘traditional’ seem to be quite out of place.
