{"id":116,"date":"2017-10-02T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T13:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/?p=116"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:21:47","slug":"art-of-the-courts-of-the-sultans-disappearing-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/art-of-the-courts-of-the-sultans-disappearing-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of the Courts of the Sultans: Disappearing Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the smaller sultanate courts still have their own <em>gamelan<\/em>-like, percussion-dominated musical traditions and court dances such as the solemn yet sensual <em>ayak-ayak<\/em> dance. Performances are, however, at present extremely rare, being mainly restricted to court festivities such as royal marriages or the sultan\u2019s birthday. As mentioned in connection with <em>mak yong<\/em>, no recordings of these unique traditions seem to be available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mal03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mal03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-558\" style=\"width:736px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ayak-ayak<\/em> is a rarely performed solemn court dance <span>Jukka O. Miettinen<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the smaller sultanate courts still have their own gamelan-like, percussion-dominated musical traditions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-court-dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}