Dangdut, a popular song based form originating from Indonesia, is also popular in Malaysia. It consists of a fusion of the Orkes Melayu or popular Malay ensemble music, popular Indian film music and Western popular music styles. Indian tablas and flutes are featured prominently in dangdut.

Dangdut is a popular music that is partly derived from Arabic, Indian. It developed in the 1970s among working class Muslim youth, but especially since the late 1990s has reached a broader following in Indonesia and become one of music genre originally from Indonesia. Dangdut music is very differ then other music genre in the world, that it will be easily recognized as dangdut music.

With this you will find many popular Dangdut songs like: "Cubit - cubitan", "Terajana", "Kopi Dangdut", "Tidak semua laki - laki" and more. From the Various Legend Artists

Most major cities, especially on Java, have one or more venues that have a dangdut show several times a week. The concerts of major dangdut stars are also broadcast on television. In 2003 singer Inul Daratista became the subject of much controversy and criticism from conservatives over her suggestive, erotic style of dancing during televised shows.

A dangdut band typically consists of a lead singer backed by four to eight musicians. The term has been expanded from the desert-style music, to embrace other musical styles. Modern dangdut incorporates influences from rock, Latin, house music, hip-hop, R&B, reggae and even Western classical music.

Dangdut has been becoming respectable for a long time, It has a special power for Indonesians precisely because it is Indonesian, not Western. There was a time when people symbolized their social aspirations with Western pop music. But that time has passed.

Dangdut also has meaning as "Indonesian" in a different sense, as virtually the only cultural form not identified with any particular ethnic group. It bridges all these regional identities, It is, however, perceived as strongly Muslim, even though its lyrics deal more with romance than religion, and as such is disliked in predominantly Christian or Hindu areas. There is dangdut sung in local languages, and that is powerfully local, because very few Indonesians can speak a regional language other than their own.

Since dangdut is itself a combination of Indian film song, Western hard rock, disco and Arabic pop (among other things) and regional pop is already a blend of Western pop and indigenous musical elements, the new Dangdut dance music styles are essentially hybrids of hybrids. In Indonesia, where the tendency to romanticise ‘traditional culture’ is strong.the techno-hybrid grooves of ethnic house music are a powerful antidote to the widespread notion that the rakyat kecil, the so-called ‘little people’, are somehow less ‘modern’ than those in the dominant class. The music of the dangdut offers a pragmatic, temporary escape from the drudgery of daily life.

...Shall we dance?

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