# Indorock > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Indorock > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Indorock.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indorock > Source revision: 1308264847 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Music genre}} {{distinguish|Indie rock}} {{Infobox music genre | name = Indorock | stylistic_origins = * [Kroncong](/source/Kroncong) * [rock and roll](/source/rock_and_roll) * [surf music](/source/surf_music) * [instrumental rock](/source/instrumental_rock) | cultural_origins = 1950s, the Netherlands | derivatives = [Nederpop](/source/Nederpop) | other_topics = [Music of the Netherlands](/source/Music_of_the_Netherlands) }} '''Indorock''' is a musical genre that originated in the 1950s in the Netherlands, formerly the colonial exploiter of the [Dutch East Indies](/source/Dutch_East_Indies). It is a fusion of Indonesian and Western music, with roots in [Kroncong](/source/Kroncong) (traditional Portuguese-Indonesian fusion music). The genre was performed by [Indo](/source/Indo_people) community in the Netherlands. Indorock is one of the earliest forms of "Eurorock". Its influence on Dutch popular music was considerable.{{cite book|last=Pattynama|first=Pamela|editor1-last=Boehmer|editor1-first=Elleke|editor2-last=Mul|editor2-first=Sarah de|title=The Postcolonial Low Countries: Literature, Colonialism, and Multiculturalism|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXtKJ4oX8PEC&pg=PA118|accessdate=4 August 2013|year=2012|publisher=Lexington|isbn=9780739164280|pages=97–122|chapter=(Un)Happy Endings: Nostalgia in Post-imperial and Postmemory Dutch Films}} The term Indorock was used in 1981 to refer to the genre and period retrospectively.{{cite encyclopedia |author=Elizabeth J Miles |entry=Immigrant Music in Europe |editor=Chris Goertzen |editor2=James Porter |editor3=Timothy Rice |encyclopedia=The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music| volume= 8|entry-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gh03DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA422|year=2017|isbn=9781351544269|page=411 |publisher=Taylor & Francis|via=Google Books}} ==History== The guitar was imported to the [East Indies](/source/East_Indies) by Portuguese explorers in the 16th century. The traditional Portuguese song styles, [saudade](/source/saudade) and [fado](/source/fado), played with guitar accompaniment, later became [kroncong](/source/kroncong) music. Many Indorock musicians had a predilection for [Hawaii](/source/Hawaii)an music, which was popular in the Netherlands at the time. Other significant influences include American [country & western](/source/country_%26_western), and the [rock & roll](/source/rock_%26_roll) repertoire played on radio stations in Indonesia via American (AFN) stations from the Philippines and Australia.{{cite web|title=THE STORY OF INDO-ROCK|url=https://indo-rock.jimdofree.com/t/the-tielman-brothers-breda-hedel/biography-english/|work=INDO-INSTRO-ROCK|publisher=piet muys|accessdate=21 May 2012|author=piet muys|year=1999|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120709023122/http://indorock.pmouse.nl/story.htm|archivedate=9 July 2012}} While Dutch audience were interested in Rock & Roll, white Dutch musicians did not perform the genre in the mid-1950s, and Indonesians and Moluccans filled the void at that time, and bands such as the Bellboys, the Room Rockers, the Hap Cats, and the Hot Jumpers performing to a mixed audience in venues such as pubs. The [Tielman Brothers](/source/Tielman_Brothers) (Reggy, Ponthon, Andy and Loulou Tielman) are generally seen as founders of Indorock, even though other Indorock bands existed before them. Being ethnically Indonesian and playing black American music to white audiences in the Netherlands and Germany, their music exemplifies the complex background of the style, which, according to [George Lipsitz](/source/George_Lipsitz), is shaped by "the histories of Dutch and U.S. military combat in Asia and Europe" and by the "internalized racial histories of the United States, the Netherlands, and Germany".{{cite book|last=Lipsitz|first=George|title=American Studies in a Moment of Danger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UQsVxmapBNkC&pg=PA313|accessdate=4 August 2013|year=2001|publisher=U of Minnesota P|isbn=9780816639496|pages=310–11}} Since the Dutch music industry offered few venues for Indorock artists, many of them went to Germany where it quickly became highly popular, at least until the advent of British [beat music](/source/beat_music).{{cite journal|last=Mutsaers|first=Lutgard|year=1990|title=Indorock: An Early Eurorock Style|journal=[Popular Music](/source/Popular_Music_(journal))|volume=9|issue=3|pages=307–20|doi=10.1017/S0261143000004116 |jstor=853325}} The Indorock scene had largely faded in the Netherlands by the mid-1960s, as it was superseded in popularity by [British rock](/source/British_rock_music) as a result of the [British Invasion](/source/British_Invasion). However, it would continue to be an influence in [Indonesian rock music](/source/Indonesian_rock). Indorock has also been considered by some to be an early form of [proto-punk](/source/proto-punk), as some of its stylistic elements are similar to those in the [punk rock](/source/punk_rock) movement of the 1970s.{{Cite web |last=Blake |first=Henry |date=2024-03-07 |title=Rollin’ Rock: Balinese Culture, the Tielman Brothers, and the Birth of Punk |url=https://medium.com/@henryblake_48596/rollin-rock-balinese-culture-the-tielman-brothers-and-the-birth-of-punk-f846e1b159ba |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=Medium |language=en}} ==Notable indorock artists== * [Tielman Brothers](/source/Tielman_Brothers) (1957) * [Bintangs](/source/Bintangs) (1961) * [Black Dynamites](/source/Black_Dynamites) (Los Indonesios) (1958) ==References== {{Reflist}} Category:Dutch styles of music Category:Indonesian styles of music Category:Fusion music genres --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Indorock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indorock) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indorock?action=history)). 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