Oral Literature and Development of West Sumatra: Reconstructing the Minangkabau Cultural Values through Role and Position of Women in Kaba at Dendang Pauah Show

摘要

This research was motivated by the assumption that kaba in the oral literary performance of Dendang Pauah can be used to reconstruct the cultural values or view of the Minangkabau life. Knowledge of the cultural values of a collective is very important, because with that knowledge we will be able to judge whether his or her views are compatible or not with the soul of development. Kaba reveals to us implicitly, how his people think. It is also through kaba, which is an oral literature, a collective perpetuating or expressing what is felt to be important to its people at some time. The purpose of this study was to describe the cultural values contained in kaba at the oral literary performance of Dendang Pauah. This study used descriptive qualitative method. The data techniques collection used in this study include interviews, recording, direct observation, and field notes. Participants in this study were dendang player, saluang player, Dendang Pauah's experts or community leaders of Koto Panjang Ikua Koto Village, Koto Tangah District, Padang City. Additional participants are spectators and community of Koto Panjang Ikua Koto Village, Koto Tangah District, Padang City. The research was conducted in Koto Panjang Ikua Koto Village, Koto Tangah District,Padang City. The object of this research is kaba which is delivered in oral literary performance of Dendang Pauah that is Kaba Urang Tanjuang Karang