Who cares about Malay music--and why?: migrant musicality, Christian composition, backlash and boundaries in an Indonesian province made for Malays LSE Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/101684/ Version: Accepted Version Book Section: Long, Nicholas J. ORCID: 0000-0002-4088-1661 (2019) Who cares about Malay music--and why?: migrant musicality, Christian composition, backlash and boundaries in an Indonesian province made for Malays. In: Kartomi, Margaret J., (ed.) Performing the arts of Indonesia: Malay identity and politics in the, music, dance and theatre of the Riau Islands. NIAS Press, Copenhagen, Denmark, p. 20. ISBN 9788776942595 Reuse Items deposited in LSE Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the LSE Research Online record for the item.
[email protected] https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/ Who Cares about Malay Music—and Why? Migrant Musicality, Christian Composition, Backlash, and Boundaries in an Indonesian Province Made for Malays Nicholas J. Long Abstract The Riau Islands have a diverse Malay musical heritage, but also a population of extreme demographic diversity. This raises questions about the ways in which non- Malays might engage with creating and performing ‘Malay music’, and how such endeavours are received more widely. This paper explores how such issues affected the Trio Komodo, a Florinese music group resident in the Riau Islands.