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Dangdut Stories
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Dangdut Stories is a social and musical history of dangdut, Indonesia's most popular music, within a range of broader narratives about social class, gender, ethnicity and nation in post-independence Indonesia (1945-present). The book shows how dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indonesian cultural politics and the commercial music industry. Throughout the book the voices and experiences of musicians take center stage in shaping the book's narrative. Quoted material from interviews, detailed analysis of music and song texts, and ethnography of performance illuminate the stylistic nature of the music and its centrality in public debates about Islam, social class relations, and the role of women in post-colonial Indonesia. Dangdut Stories is the first musicological study to examine the stylistic development of dangdut music itself, using vocal style, melody, rhythm, harmony, form, and song texts to articulate symbolic struggles over meaning in the realm of culture. The book illuminates historical changes in musical style, performance practice, and social meanings from the genre's origins to the present day. Developed during the early 1970s, an historical treatment of the genre's musical style, performance practice, and social meanings is long overdue.
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“Weintraub (2010) moves from the individual outward, focusing his study on how the identity of a genre formed through musical interchange informed by dominant political agendas, interestingly coming to express a modern Indonesian identity through its regional ethnic diversity.”
From Stars to the State and Beyond: Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music (2013) · cites this paper as Weintraub 2010
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“Like Stokes, Weintraub studies the music itself, using ' vocal style, melody, rhythm, harmony, form, and song texts to articulate symbolic struggles over meaning in the realm of culture ' (13).”
From Stars to the State and Beyond: Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music (2013) · cites this paper as Weintraub 2010
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“Weintraub ' s Dangdut Stories (2010) shifts the focus from both individuals and an encompassing overview of a mainstream popular music system to the development of a single genre, dangdut , a dominant type of Indonesian popular music.”
From Stars to the State and Beyond: Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music (2013) · cites this paper as Weintraub 2010
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“Nonetheless, dangdut developed from diverse musical sources, contradicting a common myth that Western cultural influences necessarily dominate in the development of local popular musics globally.”
From Stars to the State and Beyond: Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music (2013) · cites this paper as Weintraub 2010
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“Thus, because of the power of popular music to reach so many people, the performance of a single star became a site where national identity was highly contested (192).”
From Stars to the State and Beyond: Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music (2013) · cites this paper as Weintraub 2010
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“Popular music, as is intimated in Olsen ' s (2008) study in Vietnam, is again used to reinforce the ideals and values that the government associates with its new national identity.”
From Stars to the State and Beyond: Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music (2013) · cites this paper as Weintraub 2010
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“Dangdut ' s position as a national popular music has actually increased through local variation.”
From Stars to the State and Beyond: Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music (2013) · cites this paper as Weintraub (2010)
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“So in fact dangdut ' s ability to express a unified national identity is actually enhanced by its ability to represent diverse regional interests.”
From Stars to the State and Beyond: Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music (2013) · cites this paper as Weintraub (2010)
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“Weintraub argues that dangdut was reconfigured into a national genre primarily through commercial television (151), which was heavily censored and patrolled, but still helped turn a localized genre with transnational origins into a national phenomenon.”
From Stars to the State and Beyond: Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music (2013) · cites this paper as Weintraub 2010
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“Thus, as with Weintraub (2010), de Kloet (2008) makes clear that globalizing processes in Asia should not be viewed in relation to the West only, but rather as flows throughout Asia and within individual nations as well.”
From Stars to the State and Beyond: Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music (2013) · cites this paper as Weintraub (2010)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Weintraub, A. N.
- Corresponding author
- Weintraub, Andrew N.
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2010-07-23
- OpenAlex
- W4252541170
- Cited by
- 66
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 29.21
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Music › Music History and Culture
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Music › Musicology and Musical Analysis
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Music › Diverse Musicological Studies
- Keywords
- dangdut, Indonesian popular music, musical style, song lyrics, vocal style, performance practice, social class, gender, ethnicity, nation, Islam, women's roles, commercial music industry, cultural politics, post-independence Indonesia, musicians' experiences
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