Genre Publics

In the late 1990s sales of Indonesian pop artists' recordings overtook sales of those issuing from the US and Europe. Media scholar Emma Baulch traces the institutional and technological conditions that enabled this local music boom, providing an historical account of media changes from 1965 to the present and arguing for its formative role in social and political change. Drawing on industry data and interviews, Genre Publics delineates a cultural history showing how new notions of 'the local' w