Dikir barat is a musical form, native to the Malay Peninsula, that involves singing in groups-often in a competitive setting.Dikir barat may be performed either with percussion instrumental accompaniment or with no instrumental at all.Today the Malaysian goverment actively promotes it as an important part of Malaysian national culture.
Dikir barat is typically performed by groups of ten to fifteen members.A group usually sits cross-legged on a platform.In a typical dikir barat performance, the group will perform two segments.First segment is led by the tok juara, who is often the person in charge of the musical traning of the group.This segment usually contains the more complex musical arrangements and will likely feature the awok-awok singing in unsion with the Tok Juara.
Music Instrument of Dikir Barat
Historically, Dikir barat performances have been all males.The musical instruments are excluded from dikir barat and some groups to employ percussion instruments, including the rebana, maracas or a shallow gong.Dikir barat was very amazing performance in Malaysian because the performance who is very great at all.
