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ketjak

ketjak noun: a form of Balinese musical drama featuring rhythmic, percussive chanting.

Noun

ketjak (uncountable)

  1. A form of Balinese musical drama featuring rhythmic, percussive chanting.
    • 1999: An innovation on Mule Variations is the employment of a turntable artist, who as it turns out is so discrete you hardly notice, except on “Eyeball Kid”, which makes brilliantly apposite use of a sampled gospel choir and Balinese ketjak chanters — Luc Sante, Village Voice 12 May 1999 (Innocent...

Forms of ketjak

alternative formkecak

Origin of ketjak

Borrowed from Balinese ketjak.

Questions about ketjak

What does ketjak mean?
Ketjak means a form of Balinese musical drama featuring rhythmic, percussive chanting.
What part of speech is ketjak?
Ketjak is a noun.

Words near ketjak in the dictionary

  1. ketipate
  2. ketipic acid
  3. ketipramine
  4. ketiv
  5. ketivs
  6. ketjak
  7. Ketley
  8. ketmia
  9. ketmias
  10. ketmie
  11. ketmies

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