''Traditional music weeps'' and other themes in the discourse on music, dance and theatre of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand

Journal/Book: J Southeast Asia Stud. 1995; 26: 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511, Singapore. Singapore Univ Press Univ Singapore. 366.

Abstract: In the early, high and late colonial periods, most writings on the Southeast Asian performing arts were by foreign scholars, were court-centric, and aimed at objective accounts of syntax, theory and instruments. In the post-colonial, post-Vietnam war period, Southeast Asian-born scholars were trained at last, and a more collaborative, humanistic and issues-oriented scholarship emerged. Scholars still decry the passing of the ''authentic'' arts under the onslaught of popular culture, but authenticity has come to mean whatever a group considers to be its true tradition, and the popular arts have come to be studied in their own right.

Note: Review MJ Kartomi, Monash Univ, Clayton, Vic 3168, Australia

Keyword(s): POPULAR-MUSIC

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