Popular Music in Southeast Asia : Banal Beats, Muted Histories / Bart Barendregt, Peter Keppy, and Henk Schulte Nordholt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (104 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048534555
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 781.630959 23
  • 950
LOC classification:
  • ML3502.A785 B274 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Oriental foxtrots and phonographic noise, 1910s-1940s -- 2, Jeans, rock, and electric guitars, 1950s-mid-1960s -- 3. The ethnic modern, 1970s-1990s -- 4. Doing it digital, 1990s-2000s.
Summary: From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular music, considering not just singers and musicians but their fans as well, showing how the music was intrinsically bound up with modern life and the societal changes that came with it. Reaching new audiences across national borders, popular music of the period helped push social change, and at times served as a medium for expressions of social or political discontent.
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Introduction -- 1. Oriental foxtrots and phonographic noise, 1910s-1940s -- 2, Jeans, rock, and electric guitars, 1950s-mid-1960s -- 3. The ethnic modern, 1970s-1990s -- 4. Doing it digital, 1990s-2000s.

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From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular music, considering not just singers and musicians but their fans as well, showing how the music was intrinsically bound up with modern life and the societal changes that came with it. Reaching new audiences across national borders, popular music of the period helped push social change, and at times served as a medium for expressions of social or political discontent.

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