dangdut

"dangdut cassettes are made by stars, and by newcomers the producers hope will become stars. although the big stars do not perform live, the live performance scene is sustained less by them than by innumerable minor singers who have not a prayer of stardom... the cassette versions by the stars are definitive, and the job of the minor singers is simply to imitate those versions as best they can, meanwhile showing off their costumes and their movements and providing an environment in which the audience can dance"

-from the liner notes of smithsonian folkways recording "indonesian popular music"