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Aan de hand van een Indonesische film en een Britse TV-serie wordt nagegaan of en hoe humor helpt bij de relativering en verwerking van misstanden uit het koloniale verleden.

Referencing insights from Cultural Studies and taking a jazz-age perspective, this essay aims to historicise and 'locate the popular' in colonial Indonesia and the Philippines. A new cultural era dawned in the 1920s urban hubs of Southeast Asia, associated with the creation of novel forms of vernacular literature, theatre, music and their consumption via the print press, gramophone, radio broadcasting and cinema. By investigating the complex relationship between the elusive phenomena of modernity, cosmopolitanism and nationalism as articulated by two pioneering artists active in commercial music and theatre, the social significance of popular culture is scrutinised.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Muted sounds, obscured histories -- Living the modern life -- Four eras -- Research project Articulating Modernity -- 1. Oriental Foxtrots and Phonographic Noise, 1910s-1940s -- New markets -- The rise of female stars and fandom -- Jazz, race, and nationalism -- Box 1.1 Phonographic noise -- Box 1.2 Dance halls -- Box 1.3 The modern woman -- 2. Jeans, Rock, and Electric Guitars, 1950s-mid-1960s -- Youth culture -- Moral indignation -- Local industry -- Beat goes local -- Box 2.1 Gangs -- Box 2.2 Blue Jeans -- Box 2.3 Tremolo guitar -- 3. The Ethnic Modern, 1970s-1990s -- Modern music for the Muslim Malay masses -- Pop history, as we know it -- Subversive sounds -- Making noise in the big melting pot -- What is so modern about the ethnic? -- The sound of longing for home: pop Minang -- Village girl and big city pop diva: The story of Elly Kasim -- Box 3.1 Disco -- Box 3.2 Dangdut -- Box 3.3 Going abroad (in two songs) -- 4. Doing it Digital, 1990s-2000s -- Musical revolutions: Finally indie-pendent? -- Pop, politics, and piety -- Asia around the corner -- Doing it Digital: Three apparent paradoxes -- The Malay Muslim girl-next-door: A deeper conversation with Yuna -- Box 4.1 - JKT48 -- Box 4.2 - An Indonesian indie song -- Box 4.3 - Karaoke discs -- Box 4.4 - SoundCloud communities -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Illustration 1 – A Malay dondang sayang song recorded in Singapore by Pagoda Record, subsidiary of Deutsche Grammophon, c. 1935 -- Illustration 2 – Quranic text interpretation (tafsir) and translation from Arabic to Malay by a female religious expert (ustazah) recorded by Extra Records (His Master's Voice) in Indonesia, c. 1938 -- Illustration 3 – Rajuan Irama, an Malay orchestra, c. 1935.

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.