Publication
Disciplining Rock Music and Identity Contestations: Hybridization, Islam and New Musical Genres in Contemporary Malaysian Popular Music
| dc.contributor.author | Zawawi Ibrahim | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Dr. Paul J. Carnegie | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Professor Lian Kwen Fee | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-17T07:20:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-17T07:20:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Sometime in 1989, Margaret Scott, a Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) journalist, observed the heightening fervour of Malay rock music among ardent young Malay followers calling themselves ‘kutus’, when at the same time Islamic fundamentalism was on the rise. Fast forward towards the end of 1997, however, Raihan, a Nasyid (Islamic religious song) group, signed by Warner Records, sold a record-breaking half-a-million of their debut album. Since then Nasyid musical groups and Raihan wannabes began to mushroom creating a new hype in Malaysian popular music and industry, culminating in the Nasyid pop ‘success’ story. The focus of the article is to analyse how, at a particular phase in the evolution of Malaysian popular music, ‘rock’ was ‘disciplined’ to make way for the rise of other musical genres, in this case, Balada Nusantara (Irama Malaysia) and Nasyid pop. Taking a critical perspective, I argue that the ‘transition’ from rock to these musical genres occurred on a terrain which involves several levels of contestation, constituted by the juxtapositions of different institutions and social actors - such as the role of the state, state actors, political parties, the mediation of Islam and national culture, and ultimately, the ‘agency’ of non-state actors and the creative nucleus. | |
| dc.format.extent | 30 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.ubd.edu.bn/handle/123456789/3664 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 18 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Rock music—Malaysia—Social aspects | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Popular music—Malaysia—History and criticism | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Islam and culture—Malaysia | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Identity (Philosophical concept)—Malaysia | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Hybridization (Cultural anthropology)—Malaysia | |
| dc.title | Disciplining Rock Music and Identity Contestations: Hybridization, Islam and New Musical Genres in Contemporary Malaysian Popular Music | |
| dc.type | Working Paper | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |
