Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia Linguistic and intellectual issues

and intellectual issues

Brings together scholars from different disciplines who explicitly debate with each other

and background of the exhibited items as well as explaining the festivities and other spirited scenes illustrated in the parabaiks

offering startling new insights into how ideas of ‘parenthood’ and ‘infantilisation’ shape Thai political culture in an era of resurgent military authoritarianism

From colonial times through to the present day

Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia Linguistic and intellectual issuesThe rock era is over, according to one pop music expert. Another one once lamented that rock music had, metamorphosed into the musical wallpaper of the ten thousand lifts, hotel foyers, shopping centres, airport lounges, and television advertisements that await us in the 1990s. Whatever its current role and significance in Anglo American society, popular music has been and remains a tremendous social and cultural force in many parts of the world. This