Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia: Selected Readings

• Ahmad, Che Mahzan. 2003. Mass media in Indonesia: a Short History through Five Centuries. In Mass media in selected Muslim countries. edited by M. Y. Hussain. Kuala Lumpur: International Islamic University Malaysia.
• Ali, Muhamad. 2005. The Rise of the Liberal Islamic Netwok (JIL) in Contemporary Indonesia. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 22 (1):1-27.
• Aripurnami, Sita. 1996. A Feminist Comment on the Sinetron Presentation of Indonesian Women. In Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia, edited by L. J. Sears. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Arps, Bernard. 1996. To Propagate Morals through Popular Music: The Indonesian Qasidah Modéren. In Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa, edited by S. Sperl and C. Shackle. Leiden: Brill.
• ———. 2003. Letters on air in Banyuwangi (and beyond): radio and phatic performance. Indonesia and the Malay World 31 (91):301-316.
• Asad, Talal. 1986. The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam. Georgetown University: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.
• Bachtiar, Harsja W. 1985. The Religion of Java: A Commentary. In Readings on Islam. edited by I. Ahmad, S. Siddique and H. Yasmin. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.  (pp. 278-285).
• Barendregt, Bart, and Wim van Zanten. 2002. Popular Music in Indonesia: Massmediated, Fusion, Indie, and Islamic Music since 1998. Yearbook for Traditional Music 34:102-30.
• Barnard, Timothy P., and Hendrik M.J.  Maier. 2004. Melayu, Malay, Maleis: Journeys through the Identity of a Collection. In Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across Boundaries, edited by T. P. Barnard. Singapore: Singapore University Press.
• Bayat, Asef. 2007. Islam and the Politics of Fun. Public Culture 19:433-459.
• Berman, Laine. 2001. Comics as social commentary in Java, Indonesia. In Illustrating Asia: comics, humor magazines, and picture books, edited by J. A. Lent. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
• Blackburn, Susan. 2008. Indonesian Women and Political Islam. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 39 (1):83-105.
• Boellstorff, T. O. M. 2005. Between Religion and Desire: Being Muslim and Gay in Indonesia. American Anthropologist 107 (4):575-585.
• Bowen, John R. 1993. Muslims through Discourse: Religion and Ritual in Gayo Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Brenner, Suzanne. 1996. Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and  “the veil”. American Ethnologist 23 (4):673-697.
• Bruinessen, Martin van. 2002. Genealogies of Islam: Radicalism in post-Suharto Indonesia. Southeast Asia Research 10 (2):117-154.
• Capwell, Charles. 1995. Contemporary Manifestations of Yemeni-Derived Song and Dance in Indonesia. Yearbook for Traditional Music 27:76-89.
• Day, Anthony. 1983. Islam and Literature in South-east Asia: Some Pre-modern, Mainly Javanese Perspectives. In Islam in South-east Asia. Leiden: Brill.
• Dhofier, Zamakhsyari. 1999. The Pesantren Tradition: The Role of the Kyai in the Maintenance of Traditional Islam in Java, Southeast Asian Monograph Series. Tempe, Arizona: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University.
• Doorn-Harder, N.v., and Feener. R.M. 2006. Indonesia. In Muslim Cultures Today. A Reference Guide, edited by K. M. Coughlin. Westport, Connecticut & London: Greenwood Press.
• Effendy, Bahtiar. 2004. Islam and the State in Indonesia. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
• Eickelman, Dale. 2000. Islam and the Languages of Modernity. Daedalus 129 (1):119-135.
• Ellen, Roy F. 1983. Social Theory, Ethnography, and the Understanding of Practical Islam in South-East Asia. In Islam in South-East Asia, edited by M. B. Hooker. Leiden: Brill.
• Fealy, Greg. 2005. Islamisation and Politics in Southeast Asia: the Contrasting Cases of Malaysia and Indonesia. In Islam in World Politics, edited by N. Lahoud and A. H. Johns. London and New York: Routledge: Routledge.
• Fealy, Greg, and Virginia Hooker, eds. 2006. Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
• Feener, Michael, ed. 2004. Islam in World Cultures. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
• Fitzgerald, Justine. 2002. 'You wan see jiggy-jig?' Getting hot under the collar over Indonesian pornography. Inside Indonesia 72: 6-7.
• Foley, Rebecca. 2004. Muslim Women's Challenges to Islamic Law: The Case of Malaysia. International Feminist Journal of Politics 6 (1):53-84.
• Frederick, WIlliam. 1982. Rhoma Irama and the Dangdut Style: Aspects of Contemporary Indonesian Popular Culture. Indonesia 34:102-130.
• Garcia, Michael Nieto. 2007. Indonesian Publishing: New Freedoms, Old Worries, and Unfinished Democratic Reforms. In Identifying with Freedom: Indonesia after Suharto, edited by T. Day. New York: Berghahn Books.
• Gole, Nilufer. 2002. Islam in Public: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries. Public Culture 14 (1):173-190.
• Hefner, Robert W. 1997. Print Islam: Mass Media and Ideological Rivalries among Indonesian Muslims. Indonesia 64:77-104.
• ———. 2000. Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• ———, ed. 2005. Remaking Muslim politics : pluralism, contestation, democratization. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
• Hefner, Robert W., and Patricia Horvatich, eds. 1997. Islam in an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
• Heryanto, Ariel. 1999. The Years of Living Luxuriously. In Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia, edited by M. Pinches. London and New York: Routledge.
• Hill, David, and Krishna Sen. 2005. The Internet in Indonesia's new democracy. New York: Routledge.
• Hooker, M.B. 2003. Indonesian Islam: Social Change through Contemporary Fatawa. Sydney: Allen & Unwin; Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
• Hooker, Virginia, and Norani Othman, eds. 2003. Malaysia: Islam, society and politics. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
• Kahn, Joel. 2003. Islam, Modernity, and the Popular in Malaysia. In Malaysia: Islam, Society and Politics, edited by V. Hooker and P. Horvatich. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
• Kahn, Joel S. 2006. Other Malays : Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the modern Malay world. Honolulu: Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with University Of Hawaii Press.
• Khoo, Gaik Cheng. 2006. Reclaiming Adat: Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
• Kisaichi, Masatoshi, ed. 2006. Popular Movements and Democratization in the Islamic World. London and New York: Routledge.
• Kitley, Philip. 1994. Fine tuning Control: Commercial television in Indonesia. Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture 8:103–23.
• ———. 2000. Television, nation, and culture in Indonesia. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
• Kratz, E.U. 1986. Islamic Attitudes Toward Modern Indonesian Literature. In Cultural Contact and Textual Interpretation, edited by C. D. Grijns and S. O. Robson. Dordrecht: Foris.
• Liddle, R. William. 1996. The Islamic Turn in Indonesia: A Political Explanation. The Journal of Asian Studies 55 (2):613-634.
• Lim, Merlyna. 2002. From walking city to telematic metropolis: changing urban form in Bandung, Indonesia. In Critical Reflections on Cities in Southeast Asia, edited by T. Bunnell, L. B. W. Drummond and K. C. Ho. Brill Publisher and Times Academic Press.
• ———. 2006. Lost in Transition: The Internet and Reformasi in Indonesia. In Reformatting Politics: Networked Communications and Global Civil Society, edited by J. Dean, J. Anderson and G. Lovink. London: Routledge.
• ———. 2007. Transient Civic Spaces in Jakarta Indonesia. In Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia, edited by M. Douglass. London: Routledge.
• Lindquist, Johan. 2004. Veils and Ecstasy: Negotiating Shame in the Indonesian Borderlands. Ethnos 69 (4):487-508.
• Lindsay, Jennifer. 1997. Making Waves: Private Radio and Local Identities in Indonesia. Indonesia 64:105-123.
• Lockard, Craig. 1998. Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
• Marching, Soe Tjen. 2007. The Representation of the Female Body in two Contemporary Indonesian Novels: Ayu Utami's Saman and Fira Basuki's Jendela-jendela. Indonesia and the Malay World 35 (102):231-245.
• Milner, A.C. 1983. Islam and the Muslim State. In Islam in South-East Asia, edited by M. B. Hooker. Leiden: Brill.
• Noor, Farish. 2002. The Other Malaysia: Writings on Malaysia's Subaltern History. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfishbooks.
• Omar, Noritah. 2001. Feminism in Malaysia: The Quest for Self Identity Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan 8 (1&2).
• Ong, Aihwa. 1990. State versus Islam: Malay families, women's bodies, and the body politic in Malaysia. American Ethnologist 17 (2):258-76.
• Ong, Aiwa, and Michael G. Peletz, eds. 1985. Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Peletz, M. G. 1993. Sacred texts and dangerous words: the politics of law and cultural rationalization in Malaysia. Comparative studies in society and history 35 (1):66-109.
• Raju, Z. H. 2007. Madrasa and Muslim Identity on Screen: Nation, Islam and Bangladeshi Art Cinema in Global Stage. In Madrasas in South Asia:Teaching Terror?, edited by J. Malik. London: Routledge.
• Rasmussen, Anne. 2001. The Qur'ân in Indonesian Daily Life: The Public Project of Musical Oratory. Ethnomusicology 45 (1):30-57.
• Reid, Anthony. 2004. Understanding Melayu (Malay) as a Source of Diverse Modern Identities. In Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across Boundaries, edited by T. P. Barnard. Singapore: Singapore University Press.
• Robinson, R., and D. Goodman, eds. 1996. The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonald's and Middle-Class Revolution. London: Routledge.
• Said, Salim. 1991. Shadows on the Silver Screen: A Social History of Indonesian FIlm. Translated by T. P. Siagian. Jakarta: Lontar Foundation.
• Sarkissian, Margaret. 2005. 'Religion never had it so good': Contemporary Nasyid and the Growth of Islamic Popular music in Malaysia. Yearbook for traditional music 37:124-52.
• Scherer, Savitri. 2006. Tuna karya, jilbab and cow-boy hat: Youth in Suharto's Indonesia as reflected in the works of Remy Sylado and Emha Ainun Nadjib. Indonesia and the Malay World 34:99, 197 – 211.
• Schimmel, Annemarie. 1992. Islam: An Introduction. Albany: SUNY Press.
• Sears, Laurie J., ed. 1996. Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Sen, Krishna. 1994. Indonesian Cinema: Framing the New Order. London: Zed Press.
• ———. 2002. Indonesia: Media and the End of Authoritarian Rule. In Media Reform: Democratizing the Media, Democratizing the State, edited by M. E. P. e. al. London and New York: Routledge.
• Sen, Krishna, and David Hill. 2000. Media, Culture and Politics in Indonesia. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Shamsul, A.B. 2001. A history of an identity, an identity of a history: the idea and practice of 'Malayness' in Malaysia reconsidered. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 32 (3):355-366.
• Smith-Hefner, Nancy J. 2007. Youth Language, Gaul Sociability, and the New Indonesian Middle Class. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 17 (2):184-203.
• Steele, Janet. 2003. Representations of 'the nation' in Tempo magazine. Indonesia 76:127-145.
• Stewart, Pamela J., and Andrew Strathern, eds. 2005. Contesting rituals : Islam and practices of identity-making. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press.
• Suryadi. 2006. The ‘talking machine’ comes to the Dutch East Indies: The arrival of Western media technology in Southeast Asia. Bijdragen tot de Taal, Land en Volkenkunde 162 (2/3):269-305.
• Suryakusuma, Julia. 1996. The State and Sexuality in New Order Indonesia. In Fantasizing the Feminine. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
• Sutton, R. Anderson. 2003. Local, global, or national? Popular music on Indonesian television. In Planet TV: A World Television Reader edited by S. Kumar and L. Parks. New York: New York University Press.
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