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Popular Music in Southeast Asia

By: Contributor(s): Material type: ArticleArticleLanguage: English Publication details: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2017Description: 1 electronic resource (84 p.)ISBN:
  • 9789048534555
  • 9789462984035
Subject(s): Online resources: 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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Electronic edition Bucheon University Library History / Biographies of prominent people OAPEN 930.85 P84 Not for loan Смотреть (pdf) 1009492

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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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