Menir Moéda and His Style of Jenaka Sunda

Abstract

Jenaka sunda is a type of Sundanese music, and its emergence was pioneered by a Sundanese musician, Menir Moéda, around the end of the 1930s. Menir Moéda created jenaka sunda by remodeling, transforming, and rearranging old Sundanese traditional music into new forms or even creating new songs and musical forms that fit the needs of radio programs and listeners. The popularity of Menir Moéda and the development of jenaka sunda are closely related to the music programs broadcast on the radio, including the Dutch government radio station (NIROM), the Indonesian government radio station (RRI), and the local private radio station in West Java, namely VORL. Menir Moéda has inspired many Sundanese musicians who act as preservers and successors of jenaka sunda.

Keywords: Jenaka sunda; Menir Moéda; pioneer; new musical form; radio