Bahasa Indonesia subtitles are available! (Ada subtitle Bahasa Indonesia!). Bengawan Solo is a song that you can hear everywhere in Asia, watch this video to learn about the little known history of this song by Indonesian Kroncong musician Gesang Martohartono.

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Written, Directed and Edited by Bondan Syamsu (IG: @bondansyamsu)
Narrated by Sei Violette ( @seiviolette ).

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CREDITS
Originally Based on "Bengawan Solo: How an Indonesian folk song became the postWWII Asian Zeitgeist" by Bondan Syamsu
Link: https://broadlyspecific.com/2020/01/...

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Becker, J. (1975). Kroncong, Indonesian Popular Music. Asian Music, 7(1), 14. doi:10.2307/833923

Kartomi, M. (1998). The PanEast/Southeast Asian and National Indonesian Song Bengawan Solo and Its Javanese Composer. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 30, 85. doi:10.2307/768555

Steele, P. (2012). Memorializing Colonialism: Images of the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia in Japanese Popular Theatre. Asian Theatre
Journal, 29(2), 528–549. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23359528

Imperial Japan Map Credits:
David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

MUSIC (Order of Appearance)
Bengawan Solo Gesang Martohartono (Kroncong Asli)
Bengawan Solo Rebecca Pan (Hong Kong)
ブンガワン・ソロ Toshi Matsuda (Film Version)
Beunga Van Solo Aok Sokunkanha (Cambodia)
Bengawan Solo (Nederbeat) Young Savages (Netherlands)
Soulful Nicolas Boscovic
Memory in Time Tom Fox
Waroom huil je toch Nonah Manis (Dutch East Indies)
Bengawan Solo in Original Keroncong Duet Gesang Martohartono, Asti Dewi Christiana
Farewell Broadmoor (Piano Improvisation) Tom Fox
Bengawan Solo in Pop Bossa Nova Hendri Rotinsulu
ブンガワン・ソロ Toshi Matsuda (Original)
Love on the Solo River Pan Xiuqiong (Singapore)
Quizás, quizás, quizás Bobby Capo
Quizás, quizás, quizás Nat King Cole
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps Doris Day
The Girl From Ipanema Frank Sinatra, Antônio Carlos Jobim
Bengawan Solo Chan Yung Yung

FILMS SHOWN (Order of Appearance)
River Solo Flows (1951) Dir. Kon Ichikawa (In the intro)
Stray Dog (1949) Dir. Akira Kurosawa
The Quiet Duel (1949) Dir. Akira Kurosawa
An Autumn Afternoon (1962) Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
In the Mood for Love (2000) Dir. Wong Karwai

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Keywords:
Video Essay, Bengawan Solo, Gesang Martohartono, Kroncong Music, Indonesia History, Indonesia Culture, Colonization, Music History, Southeast Asia, PanAsian Identity

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DISCLAIMER
The use of film scenes and music in this video is fair use for commentary, criticism and analysis. I do not own the rights to any of the footage shown. All rights go to the copyright owners and no infringement is intended.

All Images & historical footage are sourced from Wikimedia Commons, Internet Archive, Google & Youtube. All rights belong to the respective license holders. This video is fair use and for educational purposes.

A special thanks to @potolawas on Instagram for some of the photos!