Performance, Popular Culture, and Piety in Muslim Southeast Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction: Performance, Popular Culture, and Piety in Malaysia and Indonesia

   • Timothy P. Daniels

   Pages 1-12

3. Performing Piety from the Inside Out: Fashioning Gender and Public Space in a Mask “Tradition” from Java’s Northwest Coast

   • Laurie Margot Ross

   Pages 13-43

4. Islamic Revivalism and Religious Piety in Indonesian Cinema

   • Eric Sasono

   Pages 45-75

5. Embodying the Divine and the Body Politic: Mak Yong Performance in Rural Kelantan, Malaysia

   • Patricia A. Hardwick

   Pages 77-103

6. “Islamic” TV Dramas, Malay Youth, and Pious Visions for Malaysia

   • Timothy P. Daniels

   Pages 105-133

7. Complicating Senses of Masculinity, Femininity, and Islam through the Performing Arts in Malang, East Java

   • Christina Sunardi

   Pages 135-160

8. Social Drama, Dangdut, and Popular Culture

   • Timothy P. Daniels

   Pages 161-177

9. Afterword: Commentary

   • James Peacock

   Pages 179-187

10. Back Matter

    Pages 189-226

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The Muslim-majority nations of Malaysia and Indonesia are known for their extraordinary arts and Islamic revival movements. This collection provides an extensive view of dance, music, television series, and film in rural, urban, and mass-mediated contexts and how pious Islamic discourses are encoded and embodied in these public cultural forms.

• culture
• film
• gender
• Islam
• Tradition

To come.

Laurie Margot Ross, Cornell University, USA Eric Sasono, Film Critic, Indonesia Patricia Hardwick, Independent Researcher, USA Christina Sunardi, University of Washington, USA James L. Peacock, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

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