Reviews
"A highly recommended text for undergraduate and graduate students in Southeast Asian music, or anyone interested in Indonesian popular music in particular."-Matthew J. Forss,Southwest Journal of Cultures, "[A] fascinating tour through the complex and polemic world of Indonesian popular music from the perspectives of young, urban Jakartans. An ambitious ethnographic study, it is not bogged down with specialized, technical terms related to music production and playing but, instead, focuses on a variety of sites where music is consumed, produced, and performed. It is even more ambitious because Wallach does not limit the scope of the project to one specific genre of popular music, but three broad categories, dangdut, pop, and underground, each of which, especially pop and underground, can be subdivided into even more refined genres." --Walter Little, American Ethnologist, "Finally, we are beginning to get studies of globalization and popular music that are ethnographically rich and theoretically sophisticated. This is among the best of them."-Timothy D. Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles, "Finally, we are beginning to get studies of globalization and popular music that are ethnographically rich and theoretically sophisticated. This is among the best of them."--Timothy D. Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles, "This is one of the most exciting books from a new generation of scholars, addressing issues that matter profoundly to millions of Indonesians and ones that have been largely overlooked in the study of the world's third largest democracy."--Ariel Heryanto, author of State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia, "Wallach's text is a valuable addition to the growing field of Indonesian popular music studies and this study is a welcome counterbalance to ethnomusicologists' historical focus on gamelan traditions."--Andrew Clay McGraw, Pacific Affairs, "A highly recommended text for undergraduate and graduate students in Southeast Asian music, or anyone interested in Indonesian popular music in particular."--Matthew J. Forss, Southwest Journal of Cultures, "This is one of the most exciting books from a new generation of scholars, addressing issues that matter profoundly to millions of Indonesians and ones that have been largely overlooked in the study of the world's third largest democracy."-Ariel Heryanto, author ofState Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia, "[A] fascinating tour through the complex and polemic world of Indonesian popular music from the perspectives of young, urban Jakartans. An ambitious ethnographic study, it is not bogged down with specialized, technical terms related to music production and playing but, instead, focuses on a variety of sites where music is consumed, produced, and performed. It is even more ambitious because Wallach does not limit the scope of the project to one specific genre of popular music, but three broad categories, dangdut, pop, and underground, each of which, especially pop and underground, can be subdivided into even more refined genres." -Walter Little,American Ethnologist
