Tales of the Southeast Asia's jazz age : Filipinos, Indonesians and popular culture, 1920-1936 / Peter Keppy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keppy, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Philippines--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Popular culture--Indonesia--History--20th century.

Entertainers--Philippines--History.

Entertainers.

Entertainers--Indonesia--History.

History.

Indonesia.

Philippines.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Filipinos, Indonesians and popular culture, 1920-1936

Place of Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press, [2019]

Summary:

Luis Borromeo was the Philippines's "King of Jazz," who at the height of his popularity created a Filipino answer to the Ziegfeld Follies. Miss Riboet was a world-famous 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 Asia's 1920s Jazz Age. This artistic era was marked by experimentation and adaption, and this was reflected in both Borromeo's and Riboet's 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 Asia's 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. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 New Cultural Landscapes p. 1

Chapter 2 Luis Borromeo and Filipino Pop Cosmopolitanism p. 18

Chapter 3 Cabaret Girls and Legislators p. 37

Chapter 4 Jassistas, Balagtansistas, Zarzuelistas p. 60

Chapter 5 The Biggest Noise p. 81

Chapter 6 New Directions p. 116

Chapter 7 Doing the Charleston Gracefully p. 135

Chapter 8 Constructing Meaning, Electrifying Audiences p. 162

Chapter 9 Stardom, Compassion and Progress p. 187

Chapter 10 Approbation and Alienation p. 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789813250512

9813250518

OCLC:

1078335752