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Article: Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia.(Brief Article)
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- SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
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- October 1, 1999
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia. By Craig A. Lockard. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. 390 pp.
This book focuses on the social context of popular music in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and, to a small extent, Singapore. The methodology is framed within a larger discourse on popular music and politics in so-called "Third World" regions. As Craig Lockard himself suggests, this book relates to another work of his that addresses a "similar subject matter in non-Asian contexts such as Jamaica, Trinidad, Chile, Brazil, Nigeria, and South Africa" (p. ix). This theoretical framework is evident in the ...
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