Track: Global Business Management Education

Abstract

The regeneration process of the personnel and gambuh in Slawatan Pawijian is considered unique as seen from its complex learning patterns, such as in its musicality, literature, Islamic and Kejawen teaching, procedure in conducting the ritual, and “tuladha” writing ritual that is only inherited by gambuh to the apprentice as the next generation. This study aims at describing all the learning patterns in the transmission process of Slawatan Pawijian art; and describing the whole set of procedures in “tuladha” writing ritual that is very sacred and can only be transmitted by gambuh to the apprentice in Slawatan Pawijian. The findings of the research presents the sacredness of Slawatan Pawijian is encouraged by the existence of myths, belief system, and natural situation which, at the same time, sustain the preservation of Slawatan Pawijian art among the people in Tamanasri Village as the form of cultural conservation. The transmission pattern of gambuh in Slawatan Pawijian art is carried out through certain ritual. The conclusion in this research is that in one generation, there is only one gambuh in the art community of Slawatan Pawijian and that the open transmission pattern used in Slawatan Pawijian art affect the preservation of the art in the future.