Cosmopolitan Intimacies Malay Film Music of the Independence Era

• Main Author: Adil Johan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore NUS Press 2018
• Edition: National government publication : English
• Subjects: Motion picture music > 20th century > History and criticism > Social aspects > Singapore > Malaysia; Malays (Asian people) > Music > History and criticism > Malaysia > Singapore
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The golden age of Malay film in the 1950s and 1960s was the product of a musical and cultural cosmopolitanism in the service of a nation-making process based on ideas of Malay ethnonationalism, initially fluid, increasingly homogenised over time. The commercial films of the period, and in particular...

Table of Contents:

• Half title page; Full title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Note to the Reader; Preface; Chapter 1
• Introduction; Chapter 2
• Decolonising Motifs; Chapter 3
• Nationalising Tradition or Traditionalising Nation; Chapter 4
• Technologies of Classiness and Narratives of Class; Chapter 5
• Disquieting Denouement; Chapter 6
• Indiepretations of Zubir Said and P. Ramlee; Chapter 7
• Conclusion; Appendices; Glossary of non-English terms; Bibliography; Filmography; Picture Credits; Index