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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Southeast Asia in the age of jazz: Locating popular culture in the colonial Philippines and Indonesia
Contributor:
Keppy, Peter
Published:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013
Published in:
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 44 (2013) 3, Seite 444-464
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s0022463413000350
ISSN:
0022-4634;
1474-0680
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
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.