| Tales of Southeast Asia's Jazz Age: Filipinos, Indonesians and Popular Culture, 1920-1936 Contributor(s): Keppy, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 9813250518 ISBN-13: 9789813250512 Publisher: National University of Singapore Press OUR PRICE: $35.64 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Ethnic - Music | Genres & Styles - Jazz |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.90 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Luis Borromeo was the Philippines's "King of Jazz," who at the height of his popularity created a Filipino answer to the Ziegfeld Follies. Miss Riboet was a world-famous Javanese opera singer who ruled the theater world. While each represented a unique corner of the entertainment world, the rise and fall of these two superstar figures tell an important story of Southeast Asia's 1920s Jazz Age. This artistic era was marked by experimentation and adaption, and this was reflected in both Borromeo's and Riboet's styles. They were pioneering cultural brokers who dealt in hybrids. They were adept at combining high art and banal entertainment, tradition and modernity, and the foreign and the local. Leaning on cultural studies and the work on cosmopolitanism and modernity by Henry Jenkins and Joel Kahn, Peter Keppy examines pop culture at this time as a contradictory social phenomenon. He challenges notions of Southeast Asia's popular culture as lowbrow entertainment created by elites and commerce to manipulate the masses, arguing instead that audiences seized on this popular culture to channel emancipatory activities, to articulate social critique, and to propagate an inclusive nationalism without being radically anticolonial. |
Contributor Bio(s): Keppy, Peter: - Peter Keppy is a historian who has been studying Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines since the 1990s. |