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Genre Publics

Popular Music, Technologies, and Class in Indonesia

Emma Baulch author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Wesleyan University Press

Published:3rd Nov '20

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Genre Publics is a cultural history showing how new notions of 'the local' were produced in context of the Indonesian 'local music boom' of the late 1990s. Drawing on industry records and interviews, media scholar Emma Baulch traces the institutional and technological conditions that enabled the boom, and their links with the expansion of consumerism in Asia, and the specific context of Indonesian democratization. Baulch shows how this music helped reshape distinct Indonesian senses of the modern, especially as 'Asia' plays an ever more influential role in defining what it means to be modern.

ISBN: 9780819579638

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224 pages