A musical history of 20th century South-east Asia

The 'Articulating Modernity' project of Bart Barendregt en Patricia Spyer received an NWO grant.

Focus

The investigation will focus on the rise of the South-east Asian entertainment industry and the way in which this provides an alternative picture of a turbulent 20th century, away from national and elite histories. This will be the story of artists and their audiences, and how they deal with modernity in everyday life via popular music, media technologies and life styles.

                                          Photo: The popular Malaysian popband 'Raihan'.

Cooperation

Within this four-year project researchers from the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (Barendregt, Spyer) work together with colleagues from the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of South-east Asian and Caribbean Studies ) and the NIOD (Netherlands Institute for War Documentation).