Happening in ! As such, I consider Malay film music as inherently cosmopolitan due to the history of musical practices preceding and surrounding Malay films in the s to s. Farish Noor was an early academic inspiration on all things Malaysian and postcolonial and offered me kind and motivational advice during the early stages of this thesis. This thesis seeks to understand musical cosmopolitanism and nationalism by analysing the musical articulations and discourses about music contained in Malay films. While the Malay film industry innovated a uniquely local but pluralistic and cosmopolitan musical aesthetic, it also sowed the seeds for a homogenising conception of Malayness.
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