美国国家公共电台 NPR Meet Voice Of Baceprot, The All-Girl Metal Band Making Waves In Indonesia

 

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

And now some words you don't often hear together - all-girl, teenage, Indonesian metal band. NPR's Ashley Westerman has this profile.

ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE¹: The band's called Voice of Baceprot. Baceprot means noisy in the girls' native Sudanese language. And they are...

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VOICE OF BACEPROT: (Singing in Indonesian).

FIRDDA KURNIA: I found myself in the metal music.

WESTERMAN: That's 17-year-old Firdda Kurnia, saying that she found herself in the metal music. We reached her in a small village some five hours southeast of the capital, Jakarta. It's a conservative area where she and her bandmates grew up. They formed VOB in 2014 after getting hooked on metal, thanks to their middle-school guidance counselor², Ahba Erza.

AHBA ERZA: I don't know why the girls love, love the metal bands.

WESTERMAN: But once they heard the metal bands like Slipknot, Metallica and Lamb of God, the three teens never looked back. Erza was a musician in a previous life. And he taught them how to play their instruments. And now he's their band manager. Today, VOB continues to gain popularity. Recently, they were even featured on Indonesia's most popular television variety show.

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VOICE OF BACEPROT: (Singing in Indonesian).

WESTERMAN: That was sound from a video of that performance back in June. If you see it, you'll notice something else about the band. All three of them are performing wearing the hijab, a headscarf traditionally worn by Muslim women. Vocalist Firdda Kurnia is acutely aware that people have noticed.

KURNIA: I'm a different musician because I'm a woman, and I play metal music. But I'm wearing hijab. Hijab is my identity, OK?

WESTERMAN: In case you didn't hear that, she says hijab is her identity.

In the world's most populous³ Muslim nation where pluralism and religion often rub against each other, VOB has caused some consternation⁴ among the more religiously conservative.

KURNIA: They say my music is forbidden.

WESTERMAN: The band has received phone calls telling them to stop playing, and they're bullied⁵ on social media. Kurnia says even her parents initially⁶ forbade her to play metal music.

KURNIA: They say metal is bad for my future (laughter). But, alhamdulillah, they are supporting us now.

WESTERMAN: Alhamdulillah, meaning praise God. Her family supports her now, as do others in the music scene there.

GIRING GANESHA: For three girls at their age living in the outskirts⁷ of Jakarta and then to play that kind of music and have such talent and skill, I think is very surprising.

WESTERMAN: That's Giring Ganesha, vocalist for the Indonesian pop band Nidji. Ganesha says Indonesia has a thriving underground metal scene, with fans in some of the highest of places. President Joko Widodo is a huge metal head. Metal and religion just coexist there. Ganesha says it's just a normal thing. And to see someone wearing hijab and playing metal...

GANESHA: Is just something so beautiful for us because it embraces everything about being Muslim. You know, we don't close down. You know, we don't put walls in front of us. We embrace our own culture and still embrace our love to God.

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WESTERMAN: Voice of Baceprot hopes to have their first album out by the end of this year. Ashley Westerman, NPR News.

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1 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

2 counselor   

n.顾问，法律顾问

参考例句：

• The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
• Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。

3 populous   

adj.人口稠密的，人口众多的

参考例句：

• London is the most populous area of Britain.伦敦是英国人口最稠密的地区。
• China is the most populous developing country in the world.中国是世界上人口最多的发展中国家。

4 consternation   

n.大为吃惊，惊骇

参考例句：

• He was filled with consternation to hear that his friend was so ill.他听说朋友病得那么厉害，感到非常震惊。
• Sam stared at him in consternation.萨姆惊恐不安地注视着他。

5 bullied   

adj.被欺负了v.恐吓，威逼( bully的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• My son is being bullied at school. 我儿子在学校里受欺负。
• The boy bullied the small girl into giving him all her money. 那男孩威逼那个小女孩把所有的钱都给他。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

7 outskirts   

n.郊外，郊区

参考例句：

• Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
• They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。