Laras Madya's Resistance to the Mass Cultural Hegemony and Its Impact on Traditional Societies' Habitus

Abstract

: The problem in this study reviews the efforts of the survival and resistance of LarasMadya against the domination of cultural hegemony that is popular in the wider community. Considering that art LarasMadya is one of the cultural heritage products in the form of a traditional musical ensemble that still survives in the community and is the foundation of the existence of folk culture, it is necessary to maintain and develop it. This study will discuss in more depth the community's resistance efforts in maintaining LarasMadya in the millennial era amid the domination of the cultural hegemony that continues to attack. The resistance, of course, can’t be separated from the habitus of the environment in it. The study approach method in this paper is interdisciplinary, or uses more than one disciplines. In detail, this study uses the disciplines of Sociology and Anthropology to focus on the concept of resistance by James Scott to analyze his efforts to survive (resistance). Meanwhile, to study the habits of the community, using the discipline of cultural studies, the habitus theory of Pierre Bourdieu. This study resulted in findings about the influence of LarasMadyaon the habits inherent in traditional community groups. As for the influence on the habits of traditional communities, namely orienting the values of Laras Madya as a reflection of life. Meanwhile, resistance to LarasMadya can also be observed in two forms of resistance, namely open and closed resistance. Consciously or not, very hard efforts are being made to survive and fight the domination of the cultural hegemony of the masses.