KITA Discourse Series 2022/1 (Book Review): Audible Locality: The Recording Industry in Indonesia and Its Approach to Minangkabau Music and Oral Tradition

KITA cordially invites you to the KITA Discourse Series No. 1/ 2022 which will be held as follows:

Title: (Book Review): Audible Locality: The Recording Industry in Indonesia and Its Approach to Minangkabau Music and Oral Tradition

Date: 7 January 2022 (Friday)

Time: 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Platform: 

• Zoom (Meeting ID: 846 3251 2891     Passcode: 930188)
• KITA Facebook Page

TENTATIVE PROGRAMME

4.00pm: Welcoming remarks by Moderator – Dr. Adil Johan (Research Fellow, KITA)
4.05pm: Introduction by Author – Dr. Suryadi (Leiden University)
4.25pm: Book Review – (1) Prof. Dr Tan Sooi Beng (Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM) & (2) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mayco Axel Santaella (Sunway University)
4.55pm: Response from Author – Dr. Suryadi
5.05pm: Discussion among panelists
5.25pm: Q & A session
5.45pm: Closing remarks from Moderator & end

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

S. Suryadi’s research interests are in oral traditions and literacy, national and regional literary life in Indonesia, and ethnic cultural phenomena and media in Indonesia. His field research focuses on Sumatra. He has received grants from several national and international foundations to carry out research on to oral traditions and local culture in West Sumatra, namely from the Toyota Foundation (1992/93), the Ford Foundation (1994), and ATL (the Oral Tradition Association) (1995). He spent eight months in Manila, the Philippines, for a course in Tagalog language at the University of the Philippines, Quezon City. Email: s.suryadi[at]hum.leidenuniv.nl

ABOUT THE REVIEWERS:

Tan Sooi Beng is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the School of the Arts, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang. She authored Bangsawan: A Social and Stylistic History of Popular Malay Opera (Oxford University Press, 1993); and co-authored Music of Malaysia: Classical, Folk and Syncretic Traditions (Routledge, 2017); and Longing for the Past, the 78 RPM Era in Southeast Asia (Dust-to-Digital 2013), which won the joint SEM Bruno Nettl Prize, 2014.

Mayco Santaella is Associate Professor at the Department of Film & Performing Arts of Sunway University in Malaysia. He studied at the University of Hawaiʹi at Mānoa as an East-West Center fellow researching music and dance traditions of the Sulu Zone (East Malaysia, southern Philippines, and eastern Indonesia). He carried out fieldwork for his doctoral studies in Sulawesi, Indonesia as a Fulbright recipient (2012–2013). His research foci include the study of music and dance traditions in the extended Sulu Zone as well as popular music in the Nusantara region.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR:

Adil Johan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), The National University of Malaysia (UKM). His research and publications consider popular music, cultural studies, interculturalism and the politics of ethnonationalism in the Malay world and Southeast Asia.