Popular culture in Indonesia : fluid identities in post-authoritarian politics / edited by Ariel Heryanto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heryanto, Ariel.

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Series:

Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 15.

Media, culture, and social change in Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture.

Indonesia--Popular culture.

Indonesia.

Mass media--Indonesia.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the key trends since the collapse of the authoritarian Suharto regime (1998), a time of great change in Indonesian society more generally. It explains how one of the most significant results of the deepening industrialization in Southeast Asia since the 1980s has been the expansion of consumption and new forms of media, and that Indonesia is a prime example of this development. It goes on to show that although the Asian economic crisis in 1997 had immediate and negative impacts on incumbent governments, as well as the socioeconomic life for most people in the region, at the same time popular cultures have been dramatically reinvigorated as never before. It includes analysis of important themes, including political activism and citizenship, gender, class, age and ethnicity. Throughout, it shows how the multilayered and contradictory processes of identity formation in Indonesia are inextricably linked to popular culture. This is one of the first books on Indonesia's media and popular culture in English. It is a significant addition to the literature on Asian popular culture, and will be of interest to anyone who is interested in new developments in media and popular culture in Indonesia and Asia.

Contents:

Pop culture and competing identities / Ariel Heryanto

Indonesian cinema : exploring cultures of masculinity, censorship, and violence / Marshall Clark

Changing social formations in Indonesian and Thai teen movies / David Hanan

Citizenship and Indonesian ethnic Chinese in post-1998 films / Ariel Heryanto

Consuming Taiwanese boys culture : watching Meteor garden with urban Kampung women in Indonesia / Rachmah Ida

Fame, fortune, fantasi : Indonesian idol and the new celebrity

Penelope Coutas

Consuming gossip : a re-domestication of Indonesian women / Vissia Ita Yulianto

Television dreams : simulation, for a new reality of Indonesia / Edwin Jurriëns

Other worlds in Yogyakarta : from jatilan to electronic music / Max M. Richter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-200) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

9780415461122

041546112X

9780203895627

0203895622

OCLC:

182662733