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State orchestras and multiculturalism in Singapore
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State-sponsored orchestras organized along ideas about ‘ethnic’ affiliation have been emerging in Singapore since the 1980s. This follows the professionalization of its first symphony orchestra in 1979, and a strategic plan by the government to establish sister amateur orchestras rooted in the imagined Chinese, Indian and Malay traditions of the island’s multicultural population. This chapter examines the processes and results of sociocultural engineering through music. It pays particular attention to the application of the western symphonic model to small ensemble and solo traditions found or invented in the practice of existing South Indian, Southern Chinese, Indonesian and Malay performing arts. In this, orchestras—as flagship arts organizations—play important roles.
Title: State orchestras and multiculturalism in Singapore
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State-sponsored orchestras organized along ideas about ‘ethnic’ affiliation have been emerging in Singapore since the 1980s.
This follows the professionalization of its first symphony orchestra in 1979, and a strategic plan by the government to establish sister amateur orchestras rooted in the imagined Chinese, Indian and Malay traditions of the island’s multicultural population.
This chapter examines the processes and results of sociocultural engineering through music.
It pays particular attention to the application of the western symphonic model to small ensemble and solo traditions found or invented in the practice of existing South Indian, Southern Chinese, Indonesian and Malay performing arts.
In this, orchestras—as flagship arts organizations—play important roles.
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