Genre Publics: Popular Music, Technologies, and Class in Indonesia

by Emma Baulch

Overview

How popular music structures Indonesians' social and political subjectivities

Genre Publics is a cultural history showing how new notions of 'the local' were produced in context of the Indonesian 'local music boom' of the late 1990s. Drawing on industry records and interviews, media scholar Emma Baulch traces the institutional and technological conditions that enabled the boom, and their links with the expansion of consumerism in Asia, and the specific context of Indonesian democratization. Baulch shows how this music helped reshape distinct Indonesian senses of the modern, especially as 'Asia' plays an ever more influential role in defining what it means to be modern.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780819579638
Publisher:	Wesleyan University Press
Publication date:	11/03/2020
Series:	Music / Culture
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

EMMA BAULCH is associate professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Monash University in Malaysia. She is the author of Making scenes: reggae, death metal and punk in 1990s' and co-author of Poverty and Digital Inclusion.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I Technological Paradigms

1 Establishing Class 27

2 Consumer Citizenship 51

3 Hinge Occupants 68

Part II Gedongan

4 Becoming Indonesia 91

5 Spinning Pasts 109

Part III Kampungan

6 Television's Children 129

7 Provincial Cosmopolitanism 148

Conclusion 170

Acknowledgments 181

Notes 187

References 195

Index 217

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Baulch's innovative study journeys through a half-century of Indonesian rock culture, elucidating connections among markets, emergent media technologies, class hierarchies, and everyday lives."—Jeremy Wallach, Bowling Green State University

"A fine-grained analysis of the prominent role of Indonesian Rock and Pop in the social and political transformations that have defined the nation's post-authoritarian trajectory. Baulch's wonderful book has much to teach us about the political life of popular music in the age of the consumer citizen."—Charles Hirschkind, University of California, Berkeley

Editorial Reviews

"Baulch's innovative study journeys through a half-century of Indonesian rock culture, elucidating connections among markets, emergent media technologies, class hierarchies, and everyday lives."—Jeremy Wallach, Bowling Green State University

"A fine-grained analysis of the prominent role of Indonesian Rock and Pop in the social and political transformations that have defined the nation's post-authoritarian trajectory. Baulch's wonderful book has much to teach us about the political life of popular music in the age of the consumer citizen."—Charles Hirschkind, University of California, Berkeley

From the Publisher