Sonic Modernities in the Malay World : A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s).

Intro -- Sonic Modernities in the Malay World -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- 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.

Sonic Modernities analyses the interplay between the production of popular music, shifting ideas of the modern and, in its aftermath, processes of social differentiation in twentieth-century Southeast Asia.

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