A study on stylistic development of Mak Yong costume in Malaysia / Suriyami Abas

Suriyami, Abas (2009) A study on stylistic development of Mak Yong costume in Malaysia / Suriyami Abas. Masters thesis, University of Malaya.

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Abstract

Through times, the skills of arts in human life are developing. Together with fast growing of the technologies, other aspects that cover the norms, cultures and lifestyle are developed as well. In the arts field, it has been a must to create certain techniques and creativity to develop together, e.g. the development of ideas and styles that changed from old to new. Mak Yong, as one of the local Malay traditional arts is often being in the centre of attentions, where the activities of cultural encouragements towards its performance are also developed, where originally it was well known only in Kelantan. Beyond times until today, it became a globally famous subject of art that it is recognized by the UNESCO as the “World’s Intangible Heritage of Humanity”, which indirectly made the arts from Kelantan an important cultural arts for the whole Malaysian society. As Mak Yong has developed in its history, so did the structure of performance and other elements in the classical arts, including the costumes used. It is well known by the public of the costumes, but how far the functions and the importance of the costumes to Mak Yong was never an important matter to the public, even to the Mak Yong activists themselves. The old generations of Mak Yong and the researcher understand the previous forms of the costumes, but the knowledge did not reached the generation of today or the public. What became clear to the eyes of the public are the costumes that we already have now. Through the critical views that evaluated the costumes of Mak Yong from the literature sources, plus the critical analysis that went through the phases of “description-analysis-interpretation-evaluation”, including the views from the experts. It is found that actually, the costumes of Mak Yong have developed and have the interesting changes of styles, not only from the outlook, but the reflections the costumes have towards the entire aspects of civilized human life that related to the factors of political and administrative, social, economy, culture and religion. Besides that, the costumes in Mak Yong need to be emphasized from the aspect of theatrical design, along with its importance towards the values of traditional cultures. These are the factors that qualified Mak Yong as the famed classical theatre in humanity

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