ketjak

English

Alternative forms

• kecak

Etymology

Borrowed from Balinese ketjak.

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 When You Dream, Orion 2006, p. 250)