| dc.description.abstract | Gandrung is the most popular traditional dance in Banyuwangi. In the past,
the gandrung dancer dances by a boy. It purposes to spy the colonizer. In its
development, gandrung dancer dances by a girl/woman. Nowadays, gandrung dance
becomes a mascot of tourism in Banyuwangi, besides it purposes to honor the guests
or to be an entertainment in some events, such as wedding ceremony, circumcisions,
and some official events.
This thesis analyzes gandrung, especially the gandrung dancer costume. The
gandrung dancer costume consists of three major parts costume and some additional
costume, such as omprog, basahan, and long cloth or jarik. Basahan consists of
utuk/kemben, kelat bahu, ilat-ilat, pending, sembong and oncer. The additional
costumes are sampur (sash), fan, and white socks. The gandrung dancer costume as
text is analyzed trough the semiotic theory. The analyses describe how the semiotics
theory signifies the meaning of gandrung dancer costume. It investigates the types of
sign such as an icon (iconical sign), an index (indexical sign), a symbol (symbolical
sign) and the levels of meaning such as denotation (denotative meaning), connotation
(connotative meaning) and myth because semiotics is a systematic study of sign, sign
systems of signs, sign systems or structure, sign processes and sign functions.
This thesis also applies library research and field research in order to get the
data and information about matter of discussion. It takes from some interviews,
several books, dictionary, cultural magazines, and internet. The data are in the form
of qualitative data that have been gathered by conducting observation and the writer
uses the technique of interview and documentary study. The result of this thesis shows that the gandrung dancer costume can be
analyzed by the semiotics theory in order to know the intended meaning and the
secret code. The gandrung dancer costume as the data represents the ideas and they
are colorful, unique, and interesting. | en_US |
