Publication

2008 - University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis, Wisconsin

Language

English

Word Count

86,000 words, Guess

Page Count

344 pages

Identifiers

and 6 more
  • ISBN-100299229041
  • Goodreads5966365
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008011974
  • OCLC Control Number223105022
  • Better World Books9780299229047
  • Open LibraryOL18506527M

Classifications

  • DDC781.6309598
  • LCCML3502.I5 W35 2008
  • LCCML3502.I5W35 2008

Description

What happens to “local” sound when globalization exposes musicians and audiences to cultural influences from around the world? Jeremy Wallach explores this question as it plays out in the eclectic, evolving world of Indonesian music after the fall of the repressive Soeharto regime. Against the backdrop of Indonesia’s fitful, chaotic transition to democracy, Wallach takes us to recording studios, music stores, concert venues, university campuses, video shoots, and urban neighborhoods. Integrating detailed, ground-level ethnographic research with insights drawn from contemporary cultural theory, he shows that Indonesia’s access to globally circulating music and technologies has neither extinguished nor homogenized local music-making in Indonesia. Instead, it has provided young Indonesians with creative possibilities for exploring their identity in a culturally diverse nation undergoing dramatic changes in an increasingly interconnected world.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies

Other Editions

  • Modern noise, fluid genres: popular music in Indonesia, 1997-2001University of Wisconsin Press2008-01-01

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