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Description

1 online resource (104 pages) : illustrations

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

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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Print version record.

Local Note

JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access

Subject

Popular music -- Southeast Asia -- History and criticism.

Popular music.

Southeast Asia.

HISTORY / Asia / General.

MUSIC / General.

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added Author

Keppy, Peter,

Schulte Nordholt, Henk, 1953-

Other Form:

Print version: Barendregt, Bart A., 1968- Popular music in Southeast Asia. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017 9789462984035 (OCoLC)979568125

ISBN

9789048534555 (electronic bk.)

9048534550 (electronic bk.)

9789462984035

9462984034