Dangdut: The Professor’s Story

A book about music of the lower classes which played a role in shaping the identity of society today.

February 9, 2011

Dangdut Stories
Author: Andrew N. Weintraub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010, 256 pages

LOOK at the King of Dangdut posing in front of the camera: his hair and beard are thick, black, curly and not neatly combed. His eyes appear to be avoiding the camera, focused intently on some point, as if to show that he is a person in the midst of an important mission. He holds an electric guitar in his left hand on which is written the name of

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