Description
A keen critic of culture in modern Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub shows how a genre of Indonesian music called dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indonesian cultural politics and the commercial music industry. Dangdut Stories is a social and musical history of dangdut within a range of broader narratives about class, gender, ethnicity, and nation in post-independence Indonesia (1945-present).
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Mythologizing Melayu: Discourse, Practice, and the Stakes of Authenticity
3. A Doll from India: Mr. Mahmud, and the Elvis of Indonesia
4. Music and Rakyat: Constructing the people in Dangdut
5. Suffering and Surrender: Dangdut and the Spectacle of Excess
6. Dangdut Nation: We bring the Happiness of Dangdut
7. Dance Drills, Faith Spills: Islam, Body Politics, and Popular Music
8. Dangdut Daerah: Going Local in Post-Suharto and Indonesia
9. Conclusion: Why Dangdut?
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