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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220062403321

Autore

Barendregt Bart A. <1968->

Titolo

Popular Music in Southeast Asia / Bart Barendregt, Peter Keppy, and Henk Schulte Nordholt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam University Press, 2017

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

90-485-3455-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (105 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

781.630959

950

Soggetti

Popular music - Southeast Asia - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.