Semionauts of Tradition: Music, Culture and Identity in Contemporary Singapore
249Semionauts of Tradition: Music, Culture and Identity in Contemporary Singapore
249Hardcover(1st ed. 2018)
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"This captivating book explores - with tremendous intellectual vitality - the dialectic relationships between the cultural, ethnic and national identities of Singapore’s creative youth, and their creative practice. A compelling read!"
Dr Liora Bresler, Professor, University of Illinois
"A well-researched and thoughtfully well-written book about the diverse forms of music in Singapore and the musicians who created it."
- Jeremy Monteiro, jazz pianist, singer, composer, and music educator
"This wonderfully lucid and compelling book analyzes the musical and cultural creativity of young Singaporean musicians growing up in a multicultural and ethnically plural society, bringing Asian and Western musical cultures into creative dialogue."
- Dr Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Professor Emeritus, Tufts University
"A thought provoking dialogue on contemporary Singaporean music!"
-Eric Watson, composer, conductor, music technologist and pedagogue
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9789811310102 |
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Publisher: | Springer Nature Singapore |
Publication date: | 01/16/2019 |
Edition description: | 1st ed. 2018 |
Pages: | 249 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Chee-Hoo Lum is associate professor of music education with the Visual & Performing Academic Group at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the Head of UNESCO-NIE Centre for Arts Research in Education (CARE), part of a region-wide network of Observatories stemming from the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Action Plan. He is also the Coordinator of the newly formed UNESCO UNITWIN: Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development. Chee-Hoo's research interests include issues towards identity, cultural diversity and multiculturalism, technology and globalization in music education; children's musical cultures; creativity and improvisation; and elementary music methods. He is currently the Co-Editor of IJME Research (International Journal of Music Education) and on the editorial board of JRME (Journal of Research in Music Education) and RSME (Research Studies in Music Education).