both the Thai Malays and the Kelantanese Malay. Today, has spread to the end of the Malay Peninsula, having reached Singapore, by some accounts, in the mid-1980s, where it is also being promoted by at least one government agency. Dikir barat in the West In recent years, Dikir barat performances have spread to the West, most commonly on university campuses. In 2007, a Malaysian student organisation at Penn State University, in the United States, included a performance as part of a traditional Malaysian wedding being held on campus. The Malaysian Student Organisation of the University of Illinois also performed a dikir barat for the Malaysian Cultural Exhibition organised at the university. The Malaysian Society of Imperial College London, performs a dikir barat annually on its Malaysian Night organised by the university. The Malaysian Students Association (MSA) of The University of Warwick performs this art form on its Malaysian Night (MNight) every year. The Malaysian Students' Organisation of the Australian National University performs this performance on its Malaysian Night 2014 with Malaysian Student Council of Australia, Australian Capital Territory (ACT Chapter) and Kelab UMNO ACT. In popular culture One of the TV advertisements for the then upcoming Malaysian Idol had the instance of a battle of hawking trades in a pasar malam between a mango seller and an orange seller, where the former raps about his mangoes in English and the latter flaunts off his oranges in a singing manner similar to that of dikir barat. In the Malaysian video game No Straight Roads (released in 2020), one of the bosses is named "DK West", a pun on the name of Dikir Barat, and the music played during the fight is described as a rap battle between the main characters and DK West which plays with a crowd of faceless individuals sitting near DK West and clapping in rhythm. To add to the music, the game also makes use during this segment of Wayang Kulit. References External links An excellent example of dikir barat, showing audience reaction to humour Malay dances Malay culture Malaysian styles of music Dances of Malaysia