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Massada's Astaganaga

Massada's Astaganaga

Hardcover

Series: 33 1/3 Europe

General MusicMusic ReferenceWorld Music

ISBN10: 1501372572
ISBN13: 9781501372575
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Nov 3 2022
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This book explores an album of popular music with a remarkable significance to a violent wave of postcolonial tensions in The Netherlands in the 1970s. Several actions were claimed by a small number of first-generation descendants of ca. 12,500 reluctant migrants from the young independent state of Indonesia (former Dutch East Indies). Transferred in 1951, this culturally coherent group consisted of ex-Royal Dutch Colonial Army personnel and their families. Their ancient roots in the Moluccan archipelago and their protestant-christian faith defined their minority image. Their sojourn should have been temporary, but frustratingly turned out to be permanent. At the height of strained relations Massada rose to the occasion. Astaganaga (1978) is a telling example of the will to negotiate a different diasporic Moluccan identity through uplifting contemporary sounds.

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