Dangdut Stories: A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's Most Popular Music

Dangdut Stories: A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's Most Popular Music
ISBN-10
0199889597
ISBN-13
9780199889594
Category
Music
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2010-09-21
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Andrew N. Weintraub

Description

A keen critic of culture in modern Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub shows how a genre of Indonesian music called dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indonesian cultural politics and the commercial music industry. Dangdut Stories is a social and musical history of dangdut within a range of broader narratives about class, gender, ethnicity, and nation in post-independence Indonesia (1945-present).

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