Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia

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273 Notes The note references are in a concise form, with abbreviated titles. The complete details of each reference can be found in the relevant section of the bibliography. The bibliography is divided into five sections. The first lists general and regional works (including national studies on countries not receiving chapter-length coverage); the other four sections cover Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Malaysia-Singapore. Introduction 1. From the song “Tarian Hidup” (“Dance of Life”) in Kembara’s album 1404 Hejira (Philips 822826, 1984). Translation by Craig Lockard, with help from Azlina Ahmed. 2. See “ ‘Get Up, Stand Up.’ ” 3. See Handler, “High Culture,” 818–824. 4. There are a few exceptions. For example, see Hill, ed., Indonesia’s New Order; Hooker, ed., Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia; Kahn and Loh, eds., Fragmented Vision: Contemporary Malaysia; Peacock, Indonesia; Pasuk and Baker, Thailand. 5. See Manuel, Popular Musics, 10. 6. Window on Hongkong, iii. 7. For example, see Dissanayake, ed., Cinema and Cultural Identity. 8. Music for Pleasure, 1. 9. Iain Chambers, “Review of Frith, Music for Pleasure,” 322. 10. You Say You Want Revolution, 5. 11. Quoted in Marre and Charlton, Beats of the Heart, 9. 274 NOTES TO PAGES xi–3 12. From Jara’s song “Manifiesto” (“Manifesto”), translated in liner notes to Chile Vencera! An Anthology of Chilean New Song, 1962–1973 (Rounder Records 4009/4010). 13. From the album Cry of Vietnam (Fellowship of Reconciliation). 14. For more on the cases summarized here, see Lockard, “ ‘Get Up, Stand Up.’ ” 15. “Kerontjong and Komedi Stambul,” 41–50. 16. Ramedhan, “Disco Way of Life,” 16–19; Becker, “Kroncong, Indonesian Popular Music,” 14–19; Kornhauser, “In Defence of Kroncong,” 104–177. 17. Frederick, “Rhoma Irama and the Dangdut Style,” 103–130. The literature on African popular music is vast; some of the major books include: Barlow and Eyre, Afropop!; Bender, Sweet Mother; Bergman, Goodtime Kings; John Collins, Musicmakers of West Africa and West African Pop Roots; Coplan, In Township Tonite!; Erlmann, African Stars and Nightsong; Ewens, Africa O-Ye!; Graham, Da Capo Guide to Contemporary African Music and World of African Music; Kivnick, Where Is the Way: South Africa; Roberts, Black Music of Two Worlds; Stapleton and May, African Rock; Stewart, Breakout: Profiles in African Rhythm; Thomas, History of Juju; Waterman, Juju: African Popular Music. 18. Popular Musics, 198–220. 19. Steinberg et al., In Search of Southeast Asia, 460. 20. See Reflections of Change: Malaysian Popular Music, 1–112; “From Folk to Computer Songs: Malaysian Popular Music,” 15–40; “ ‘Hey We Equatorial People’: Popular Music in Malaysia,” 11–28; “Popular Musics and Politics in Modern Southeast Asia,” 149–199. 21. See “Woody Guthrie,” 237–244; essays on Miriam Makeba, Theodore Bikel, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and the Limelighters in the New Grove Encyclopedia of Music in the United States (New York: Grove, 1987); essays on the Almanac Singers, Harry Belafonte, Calypso, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, and Pete Seeger in Ray Browne, ed., Encyclopedia of American Popular Culture (ABC–Clio, forthcoming). 22. I wrote about this experience and the folk tradition in “Letter from Meixian.” 23. For a recent expression of this point, see Shepherd, “Music, Culture and Interdisciplinarity,” 127–142. Chapter 1: Popular Culture and Music in the Modern World 1. “Malaya Blues,” from their album Living It Up (WEA 2292-50398, 1984). 2. Based on United Nations, Industrial Statistics 1991, 774–783. 3. World Record Sales, 71. 4. McLeod, “Seamless Web,” 69. 5. Kato, “Some Thoughts Japanese,” xvii–xviii. 6. For example, see Levine, “Folklore,” 1369–1400; King, “Popular Culture,” 26–34; Lewis, “Commercial,” 142–156. 7. See Hinds, “Popularity,” 1–13; Abdul Majid, Popular Culture, 112–113; Lewis, “American Popular Culture,” 3. 8. Lewis, Sociology of Popular Culture, 1. NOTES TO PAGES 3–8 275 9. For example, see Burke, Popular Culture. 10. See some of the essays in Powers and Kato, eds., Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture. 11. Abdul Majid, Popular Culture, 117. On India see, for example, the essays by B. Ramesh Babu, Issac Sequira, and Indra Deva in International Popular Culture, 2/1 (Spring-Summer 1981), 2–21. Some other Malaysian scholarly views on popular culture generally include: Wan Abdul Kadir, “Kebudayaan Popular,” 14–16; Abdul Majid, “Popular Art,” 60–79. 12. Prime-Time Society, 2–5. See also Irwin, Communicating with Asia, 123–128. 13. See Heidt, Mass Media, 232. 14. See Associated Press, “Italian Radio Station”; Lorch, “To Find...