Indonesian entertainment has a long history, dating back to the 19th century. During the Dutch colonial period, traditional Indonesian performing arts such as wayang (shadow puppetry) and ludruk (a type of folk theater) were popular forms of entertainment. In the 1950s and 1960s, Indonesian music and dance began to modernize, with the emergence of genres such as kroncong (a fusion of traditional Indonesian music with Western styles) and dangdut (a popular music genre that originated in the 1970s).