The Existence of Music in the Ba Arak Program in the Traditional Culture of Marriage of the Koto Tangah Community

Abstract

This article aims to reveal and explain the function and existence of music in the Ba arak tradition in the marriage customs of the Koto Tangah community in Padang city. Ba arak is a tradition commonly practiced by the Koto Tangah community at a wedding party. The process is done from the Bako house to the wedding party, where Ba Arak is also performed as a sign that someone is married, to need to be paraded (herded) throughout the village. Baarak tradition that is in the kenagarian Koto Tangah Padang, is a procession of eporia with the sound of a vibrant music. This research is a qualitative method with descriptive method, the data is collected by interview technique, which is directed at the problem of music function and its existence in the Ba arak program at the Koto Tangah community wedding party. Other data collection is done by observation, which is observing the ways or structure of the presentation of music that delighted the procession, but also observed the response of the community to the procession and the sounds of the music. Data collection was carried out in the form of document data analysis, in which the data was obtained from notes and writings on the procession in the Koto Tangah community tradition. Data analysis was carried out with a plot based on Miles and Huberman analysis techniques, such as data collection, selecting data, exposing data, testing data and summarizing the results of data analysis. The results of the study found that the function of music in the Ba arak program in the marriage tradition of the Koto Tangah community was as a means of communication, in addition to being a means of communication as well as an entertainer of the community, as a sign that there was a new bride in the procession.