Sonic modernities in the Malay world: a history of popular music, social distinction and novel lifestyles (1930s - 2000s)

"Sonic Modernities situates Southeast Asian popular music in specific socio-historical settings, hoping that a focus on popular culture and history may shed light on how some people in a particular part of the world have been witnessing the emergence of all things modern. In its focus on pionee...

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Other Authors: Barendregt, Bart 1968- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2014
Series:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 290
Southeast Asia mediated 4
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Summary:"Sonic Modernities situates Southeast Asian popular music in specific socio-historical settings, hoping that a focus on popular culture and history may shed light on how some people in a particular part of the world have been witnessing the emergence of all things modern. In its focus on pioneering artists, their creative use of new genres and border crossing technologies it aims at a rewriting of Southeast Asia's twentieth century from the perspective of popular music makers, the entertainment industry and its ever changing audiences"..
Physical Description:XI, 375 S. Ill., Notenbeisp.
ISBN:9789004259867
9789004261778
DOI:10.1163/9789004261778

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