The maintenance of Central Thai cultural identity through hybrid music genres Ware,V 2011, The maintenance of Central Thai cultural identity through hybrid music genres, Tirai panggung, vol. 11, pp. 80-95. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads ware-maintenanceof-2011.pdf Published version application/pdf 283.10KB 215 Title The maintenance of Central Thai cultural identity through hybrid music genres Author(s) Ware,V orcid.org/0000-0002-5192-3097 Journal name Tirai panggung Volume number 11 Start page 80 End page 95 Total pages 16 Publisher University of Malaya Place of publication Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Publication date 2011 ISSN 0128-5998 Summary Thailand has experienced rapid industrialisation, modernisation and cultural changesince the mid-nineteenth century. Many Western cultural forms have been adopted intoThai life, including Western popular music. An external view of these processes andtheir results might suggest that Thailand has become quite ‘Western’. However, closeranalysis reveals that elements of foreign cultures have long been adopted and adaptedinto Thai culture, and used as social capital to build an image of modernity andcosmopolitan sophistication.One of the adaptations made has been the fusion of Western genres with Thaiones, to form new hybrid styles of music. One hybrid genre that has developed largelyover the past half century is Dontri Thai Prayuk (‘modernised Thai music’), whichfuses aspects of Western pop with elements of Central Thai classical music. As thispaper demonstrates, clear patterns emerge in the way Thai musicians have maintainedmarkers of Thai identity and fused them with Western elements that signifymodernisation.Motivations behind this deliberate fusion of Thai and Western elements areexplained by the theories of ‘musical accommodation’ and ‘acts of identity’ – thatmusicians will converge with or diverge from other music-cultures in order to gainapproval or assert a separate identity, in ways that deliberately change the underlyingrules of the source musics to form a new identity. Analysis of Dontri Thai Prayukfusion music shows that it has changed the underlying rules of Thai classical andWestern popular music to display a music-cultural identity that is Thai, yet modern. Language eng Field of Research 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology 160810 Urban Sociology and Community Studies 200202 Asian Cultural Studies Socio Economic Objective 940106 Citizenship and National Identity HERDC Research category C3.1 Non-refereed articles in a professional journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2011, University of Malaya Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30069867 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Humanities and Social Sciences Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 19 Feb 2015, 11:34:55 EST Fri, 20 Feb 2015, 04:02:27 EST Fri, 20 Feb 2015, 05:16:09 EST Tue, 24 Feb 2015, 15:07:20 EST Wed, 25 Feb 2015, 14:38:21 EST Tue, 03 Mar 2015, 11:12:11 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2016, 08:29:00 EST Wed, 06 Dec 2017, 06:12:56 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 17:25:39 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 347 Abstract Views, 216 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 19 Feb 2015, 11:34:55 EST