![]() Many lyrics in Dikir Barat use Malay pantun conventions, such as the four-line version that includes the first two lines as a figurative representation and the following two lines as direct quotes revealing meaning. Dikir Barat has four roles: the tok awok, the tok juara and tukang karut are the frontmen/women the tok juara and tukang karut are the team's soloists, with the team's front left stage and behind them, the paluan or the percussion team are pictured on stage right and the tok juara and tukang karut are the karut The ten claps, or the clapping sequence in one's hands's performance may have been described as the tepuk sepuluh, which may imply that multiple hands make or refer to the ten fingers of one's hands. In the 1980s, Dikir Barat first began to be practiced in Singapore, owing to the country's increasing numbers of Kelantanese construction workers. ![]() The Malay population in Singapore's Dikir barat is a popular source of entertainment. ![]()
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