“One united people”? The possibility for an authentic Singaporean identity and music’s role in composing it

• Main Author: Loh, Aloysius Dai Coon
• Other Authors: Dimitris Apostolopoulos
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76569
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, I have shown how national identity is formed through heritage, as the collectivisation of history and memory that are linked through music as a mediator, which is then mythologised by music in itself. I then presented an inter-subjective formulation of authenticity to assess said nati...