Tales of Southeast Asias Jazz Age: Filipinos, Indonesians and Popular Culture, 19201936

Tales of Southeast Asias Jazz Age: Filipinos, Indonesians and Popular Culture, 19201936

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Luis Borromeo was the Philippiness King of Jazz, who at the height of his popularity created a Filipino answer to the Ziegfeld Follies. Miss Riboet was a worldfamous Javanese opera singer who ruled the theater world. While each represented a unique corner of the entertainment world, the rise and fall of these two superstar figures tell an important story of Southeast Asias 1920s Jazz Age.This artistic era was marked by experimentation and adaption, and this was reflected in both Borromeos and Riboets styles. They were pioneering cultural brokers who dealt in hybrids. They were adept at combining high art and banal entertainment, tradition and modernity, and the foreign and the local.Leaning on cultural studies and the work on cosmopolitanism and modernity by Henry Jenkins and Joel Kahn, Peter Keppy examines pop culture at this time as a contradictory social phenomenon. He challenges notions of Southeast Asias popular culture as lowbrow entertainment created by elites and commerce to manipulate the masses, arguing instead that audiences seized on this popular culture to channel emancipatory activities, to articulate social critique, and to propagate an inclusive nationalism without being radically anticolonial.

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