Adil Johan

Cosmopolitan Intimacies: Malay Film Music of the Independence Era Adil Johan

The golden age of Malay film in the 1950s and 1960s was the product of a musical and cultural cosmopolitanism in the service of a nation-making process based on ideas of Malay ethnonationalism, initially fluid, increasingly homogenised over time. This is the first in-depth study of the film music of the period. It brings together ethnomusicological and cultural studies perspectives.