Music and Moral Geographies: Constructions of "Nation" and Identity in Singapore

• Main Author: Kong, Lily
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Moral panics; Nation-building; Pop music; Rock music; Singapore; Western music; Asian Studies; Human Geography; Music
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1792; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3049/viewcontent/MusicMoralGeographies_Singapore_2006.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, I attempt to pull together sociological and geographical perspectives in the study of music to understand the ways in which pop and rock music are socio-cultural products with political and moral meanings and implications. I examine state engineering of moral panics, focusing on a cas...