Malay and Islam-Centric national narratives: modern art in Malaysia during the 1980s
THE 1971 NATIONAL CULTURE CONGRESS could be seen as the first official attempt to shape arts and culture in Malaysia. Inspired by increasingly pro-Malay government policies, Malay intellectuals convened at the University of Malaya in August that year to formulate the country’s policy on national...
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International Institute for Asian Studies
2017
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/37402/1/Malay_and_Islam-Centric_national_narrati.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/37402/ https://iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/malay-islam-centric-national-narratives-modern-art-malaysia-during-1980s |
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| Summary: | THE 1971 NATIONAL CULTURE CONGRESS could be seen as
the first official attempt to shape arts and culture in Malaysia.
Inspired by increasingly pro-Malay government policies,
Malay intellectuals convened at the University of Malaya in
August that year to formulate the country’s policy on national
culture. Three principles were established, namely, ‘Malaysian
National Culture must be based on the indigenous culture of
the people from the region’; ‘Elements from other cultures
that are deemed proper and appropriate can be integrated
as parts of the National Culture’; and ‘Islam as an important
element in forming the national culture’.
Perhaps more influential than the National Culture
Congress in arts and culture was a rise in Islamic
consciousness and policies from the mid-1970s onwards
in Malaysia. |
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