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Constructions of Nation and the Classicisation of Music: Comparative Perspectives from Southeast and South Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2004

Pamela Moro
Pamela Moro
Affiliation:
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, USA. email: pmoro@willamette.edu
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Abstract

This article compares how elite music was classicised or canonised as part of the process of constructing national culture in India, Indonesia and Thailand. Issues examined include the role of the middle class; homogeneity and heterogeneity in national culture; the rise of mass education and innovative forms of musical transmission; the institutionalisation of music theory and music scholarship; dynamic influences from the West; and transformations in the roles of musician, patron and audience.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , June 2004 , pp. 187 - 211
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© 2004 The National University of Singapore

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Footnotes

This work was supported by Willamette University through a sabbatical leave and an Atkinson Faculty Development Grant, as well as by a four-month period as an affiliated fellow with the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands. I wish to extend thanks to my colleagues in Leiden Wim van Zanten, Michael Laffan, Margaret Sleeboom, Clara Brakel, and Dick van der Meij for cheerful inspiration and scholarly guidance.