Hegemony is not monolithic. But it's, but it's, but it's alright Alright!! Other encounters take place through internationally and nationally based distribution of the commodities of popular culture—audio and videocassette recordings, and radio and television broadcasts. My research on local performing arts attempted always to keep in its sights the interplays of power imbalances, from the hegemony of global capitalism and national, Java-centric designs, to the local rivalries between and within ethnic and subethnic groups. In drawing on brief trips and secondary sources, it is often scholars from outside the province who have been empowered to represent the province and its arts in sources widely consulted.
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