Current efforts in sustaining Peranakan Chinese music in Melaka / Goh Zin Guan
Peranakan Chinese (Straits-born Chinese) music such as dondang sayang may not be a familiar folk music to the modernized Malaysian community, however, there are associations and organisations that thrived on to sustain the musical culture in Melaka. In the advanced influence of popular culture an...
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2020
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Online Access: | http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/14354/2/Goh_Zin_Guan.pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/14354/1/Goh_Zin_Guan.pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/14354/ |
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Summary: | Peranakan Chinese (Straits-born Chinese) music such as dondang sayang may
not be a familiar folk music to the modernized Malaysian community, however, there
are associations and organisations that thrived on to sustain the musical culture in
Melaka. In the advanced influence of popular culture and modernity, efforts of
sustaining local culture and Peranakan Chinese music becomes more challenging. Thus,
this study aims to investigate the various efforts put on in sustaining the musical culture
and its consequences in terms of authenticity in present Melaka. The past literatures
reveal scholarship on Peranakan Chinese music in Malaysia came to a halt in the past
two decades. Methodology in this study were observation, video recording and semistructured
interview that focused on three active associations in Melaka and
documentation of some less-active ones that takes the form of a qualitative enquiry. The
outcomes of this study reveal how the associations and community revive interest and
sustain the cultural form in new and innovative approaches that adapt to modernity and
where sight of glocalization was witnessed. Furthermore, issues of authenticity were
discussed.
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