Sonic Modernities in the Malay World
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1.
Sonic Histories in a Southeast Asian context
Modern Sounds
The Entertainment Industries
Changing Access, Listening Experience and Taste Makers
The Making of Musical Lifestyles: Fans, Hierarchies and Transgression
Changing Morals and the Fear of the Foreign and Female
Malayness and Other Nationalisms, Official and Unofficial in Character
The Modern Ethnic
Remembering the Twentieth Century, as we Listen to it…
References
PART ONE: AN EMERGENT ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
2.
Music on Dutch East Indies Radio in 1938: Representations of Unity, Disunity, and the Modern
On the Air
In the Air
3.
‘Dirty Dancing’ and Malay Anxieties: The Changing Context of Malay Ronggeng in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Introduction
Ronggeng
A Slip-Up by an Editor in 1920
The Woes of Women and the ‘National’ Malay Dance
Joget Modern as Site of Contestation
Literary Reflections
Conclusion
References
4.
Disquieting Degeneracy: Policing Malaysian and Singaporean Popular Music Culture from the Mid-1960s to Early-1970s
The Ideas of Zubir Said and P. Ramlee: Precursors to National Culturalism
Youth and Popular Music in 1960s Singapore and Malaysia
Disquieting Expressions
Degenerate Practices
Conclusion
References
PART TWO: THE SOUND OF MELAYU
5.
Pop goes Melayu: Melayu popular music in Indonesia, 1968–1975
Melayu
The (Late) Old Order
Orkes Melayu
Pop Indonesia
‘Becoming Melayu’: The Work of Zakaria
Conclusion
References
6.
Pop Melayu vs. Pop Indonesia: New Interpretations of a Genre into the 2000s
The Contentious Rise of Pop Melayu
Genres
The New Order and pop Indonesia
Re-Emergence and Derision of Melayu-Ness
Pop Melayu-Dangdut
The Dispersal of Pop Indonesia
The Staging of Production
Conclusion
References
PART THREE: NEW SUBJECTIVITIES AND UNOFFICIAL IDEOLOGIES
7.
Worlds of Sparkling Lights: Popular Music and Youth Cultures in Solo, Central Java
Sugaly: A Gang of ‘Savage Children’
Negotiating Lifestyles through Popular Music
Revisiting Sugaly: Biography and Diversification of Musical Taste
Dugem: The Music of Cosmopolitan Youth
Entering the Worlds of Sparkling Lights
Popular Music and ‘Bedroom Culture’
Soundtracks in My Life
Glimpses from the Local Dugem Scene
Contesting Dugem: Rave Parties and DIY-Cultures in Solo
Conclusion
References
8.
Seductive Pleasures, Eluding Subjectivities: Some thoughts on Dangdut’s Ambiguous Identity
Dangdut in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Semiotic Pleasures
Dangdut’s ‘Noise’, New Order’s ‘Voice’: Who is Speaking?
Seductive Subjectivities: Some Concluding Thoughts
References
PART FOUR: MUSICAL NATIONALISMS
9.
Notes on Dangdut Music, Popular Nationalism, and Indonesian Islam
Sound, Lyrics, and Audience
The People’s Music
Gendering the Nation
Dangdut and Indonesian Islam(s)
Dangdut and the Inul Daratista Phenomenon
Conclusion
References Cited
10.
Politicians Who Love to Sing and Politicians Who Detest Singing
Singing Politicians
Crooning Generals and Patriotic Police Men
The Sound of Campaigning
Those Who Detest Singing
A Theological Approach to Music
Malaysian Morals
Conclusions
References
PART FIVE: THE ETHNIC MODERN
11.
Musical Aspects of Popular Music and Pop Sunda in West Java
Pop Sunda as a Specific Kind of Popular Music in West Java
Musical Change
Travelling Musicians
Recorded Songs for Musical Analysis
The Song Bajing Luncat between 1960 and 2002
The Song Sorban Palid between 1970 and 2002
Conclusion
References
12.
Modernizing Songs of the Forest: Indigenous communities Negotiate Tensions of Change in Malaysia
Songs of the Dragon: The Temuan Sing About Indigenous Identity
The Sarawak Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF)
Conclusion
References
Index
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