"Traditional music weeps" and other themes in the discourse of music, dance and theater of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: September 1, 1995| Author: Kartomi, Margaret J. | Copyright information

In the early, high and late colonial periods, most writings on the Southeast Asian performing arts were by foreign scholars, were court-centric, and aimed at objective accounts of syntax, theory and instruments. In the post-colonial, post-Vietnam war period, Southeast Asian-born scholars were trained at last, and a more collaborative, humanistic and issues-oriented scholarship emerged. Scholars still decry the passing of the "authentic" arts under the onslaught of popular culture, but authent...

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