Making "music at the margins"? A social and cultural analysis of Xinyao in Singapore

• Main Author: KONG, Lily
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1996
• Subjects: Chinese music; Chinese youths; popular music; Singapore; culture; identity; Asian Studies; Music; Sociology of Culture
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2265; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3522/viewcontent/MakingMusicMarginsXinyaoSingapore_1996.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Formalist critics and aestheticians have argued that music does not possess any kind of "extra-musical" significance, that there is no meaning beyond the form and structural relations of the notes. For them, music exemplifies the laws of mathematical harmony and proportion rather than the...