Vestigial pop : Hokkien popular music and the cultural fossilization of subalternity in Singapore

• Main Authors: Liew, Kai Khiun, Chan, Brenda
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Music
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107076; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25339; http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/sj28-2d
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As part of its modernization project, the postcolonial Singapore state has systematically marginalized the vernacular cultures of the country’s colonial-era immigrant society. Nevertheless, Hokkien popular music has persisted not only in the street festivals that were so characteristic of the coloni...