the popularity of jaipongan, but it had already become the music of the people and their efforts were thwarted. Jaipongan was a way for the Sundanese people to take back their culture from the Western ideas and rid themselves of the colonial Dutch influences. Jaipongan elevated the idea of village music or music of the people. It focused on love, money, agriculture, and as the world became filled with more turmoil, it became a vehicle for moral, political spiritual, and social awareness. Jaipongan became so popular that in 1976, two years after its creation, it was recorded on cassettes on Gumbira's record label Jugala. With the cassette's release international popularity rose and helped to create a larger musical industry in Sunda and Indonesia at large. All of which was and still is used to help preserve the culture and history of the West Java and the Sundanese people. The rapid popularity of Jaipongan along with the boom in cassette tapes helped the genre to spread and become popular in Asia, Europe, and America during the 1980s. In addition it created a tourism industry in Sunda. People from all over the world came to learn about and experience Jaipongan first hand. Music and dance schools were created in order to preserve the art form and history of the Sundanese people. The government felt that Jaipongan was such a cultural staple that it needed to be taught to all citizens. Jaipong today In 2011, the international popularity of jaipongan has decreased, but in Asia, the genre is still extremely popular. It is most popular in the areas of Sunda, where it was created, as well as the surrounding villages and cities. Although the genre is most popular in Asia, there are jaipongan dance troupes and musical ensembles in Europe in addition to the United States (like Harsanari of San Francisco, California) and throughout other parts of the world. Dutch-Indonesian choreographer Gerard Mosterd devised a modern dance choreography, "Ketuk Tilu" in 1998. Approved and inspired by Gugum Gumbira. Based on a classic recording with Euis Komariah and Jugala Orchestra. In 2009, fundamentalist political proposals were submitted to blacklist jaipongan and several other "sensual" Indonesian dance forms. The ban attempt didn't succeed and jaipongan remains a very popular underground genre associated with erotic and rebellious power instead. In 2015, jaipongan was noted as a modern classical genre of music, which is often utilized in