Lockard, Craig A.: Dance of Life

Lockard, Craig A.: Dance of Life – Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia (2001, Silkworm Books, Kunto: K3)

This book explores the connection between popular music and politics in Southeast Asia over the past five decades, with particular emphasis on Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Malaysia/Singapore. An examination of Southeast Asia constitutes part of a larger analysis of the relationship between popular music and politics throughout what is often rather imprecisely termed the “Third World.” In another study I address the subject matter in non-Asian contexts such as Jamaica, Trinidad, Chile, Brazil, Nigeria, and South Africa. Considerable attention is devoted in both works to the relationship between popular music and politics generally (including the expression of political protest...

Hakusanat: kaakkois-aasia, southeast asian studies, asian studies, kulttuurientutkimus