Tales of Southeast Asia's Jazz Age: Filipinos, Indonesian and "Popular culture", 1920-1936

TY - BOOK

T1 - Tales of Southeast Asia's Jazz Age

T2 - Filipinos, Indonesian and "Popular culture", 1920-1936

AU - Keppy, Peter

PY - 2019/6

Y1 - 2019/6

N2 - Leaning on cultural studies, and fandom studies, popular culture is critically examined here as a social phenomenon of Southeast Asia’s emerging urban multi-ethnic middle-classes. This book opens up a critical history of a contradictory popular culture and the people and forces behind it, highlighting the profound societal transformations in early twentieth-century Southeast Asia.

AB - Leaning on cultural studies, and fandom studies, popular culture is critically examined here as a social phenomenon of Southeast Asia’s emerging urban multi-ethnic middle-classes. This book opens up a critical history of a contradictory popular culture and the people and forces behind it, highlighting the profound societal transformations in early twentieth-century Southeast Asia.

KW - history

KW - popular culture

KW - Southeast Asia

KW - modernity

KW - fandom

KW - Philippines

KW - Indonesia

M3 - Book

SN - 978-981-3250-51-2

BT - Tales of Southeast Asia's Jazz Age

PB - NUS Press

CY - Singapore

ER -