Music as poetry and performance : arranged marriages, past instabilities, and Razak Abdul Aziz’s musical performance
This article examines the intersection of music and literature by taking Malaysian musical performance song cycles as examples. The term, song cycles, is often used in musico-literary studies and is usually associated with Cyrus Hamlin and his definition of it as arrangements and reinterpretations...
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| description | This article examines the intersection of music and literature by taking Malaysian musical performance song cycles
as examples. The term, song cycles, is often used in musico-literary studies and is usually associated with Cyrus
Hamlin and his definition of it as arrangements and reinterpretations of well-established literary narratives. By
incorporating poetry analysis and interviews with Razak Abdul Aziz concerning his musical performance of 10 Pantun
Settings, song cycles are recontextualised to incorporate vestiges of cultural identities, specifically, the notion of
arranged marriages. As such, the article focuses on Razak Abdul Aziz’s musical performance of 10 Pantun Settings
as he relates his musical experiences across interviews and the consciousness of the song cycle meanings. The article
concludes that the fleeting musico-literary works of 10 Pantun Settings as musically composed and performed
revealed the pervasiveness of dreariness, displacement, and disappointment across arranged marriages that provides
real-life snapshots of loss and, to a certain extent, a vivid description of bereavement and grief from a “death of a
marriage.” It is argued that through a complex rendering of arranged marriages, 10 Pantun Settings as a song cycle
provoked a nostalgic saudade, past instabilities of what it means growing up married in preconfigured environments.
Finally, this article references both the interviews and textual analysis of 10 Pantun Settings to the social exchange
principles, specifically the consequence of the woman’s emotion in the arranged marriage. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:185542022-05-11T00:31:34Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18554/ Music as poetry and performance : arranged marriages, past instabilities, and Razak Abdul Aziz’s musical performance Mohd Fairuz Zamani, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, This article examines the intersection of music and literature by taking Malaysian musical performance song cycles as examples. The term, song cycles, is often used in musico-literary studies and is usually associated with Cyrus Hamlin and his definition of it as arrangements and reinterpretations of well-established literary narratives. By incorporating poetry analysis and interviews with Razak Abdul Aziz concerning his musical performance of 10 Pantun Settings, song cycles are recontextualised to incorporate vestiges of cultural identities, specifically, the notion of arranged marriages. As such, the article focuses on Razak Abdul Aziz’s musical performance of 10 Pantun Settings as he relates his musical experiences across interviews and the consciousness of the song cycle meanings. The article concludes that the fleeting musico-literary works of 10 Pantun Settings as musically composed and performed revealed the pervasiveness of dreariness, displacement, and disappointment across arranged marriages that provides real-life snapshots of loss and, to a certain extent, a vivid description of bereavement and grief from a “death of a marriage.” It is argued that through a complex rendering of arranged marriages, 10 Pantun Settings as a song cycle provoked a nostalgic saudade, past instabilities of what it means growing up married in preconfigured environments. Finally, this article references both the interviews and textual analysis of 10 Pantun Settings to the social exchange principles, specifically the consequence of the woman’s emotion in the arranged marriage. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022-03 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18554/1/41026-180152-1-PB.pdf Mohd Fairuz Zamani, and Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, (2022) Music as poetry and performance : arranged marriages, past instabilities, and Razak Abdul Aziz’s musical performance. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 28 (1). pp. 1-15. ISSN 0128-5157 https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1471 |
| spellingShingle | Mohd Fairuz Zamani, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Music as poetry and performance : arranged marriages, past instabilities, and Razak Abdul Aziz’s musical performance |
| title | Music as poetry and performance : arranged marriages, past instabilities, and Razak Abdul Aziz’s musical performance |
| title_full | Music as poetry and performance : arranged marriages, past instabilities, and Razak Abdul Aziz’s musical performance |
| title_fullStr | Music as poetry and performance : arranged marriages, past instabilities, and Razak Abdul Aziz’s musical performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Music as poetry and performance : arranged marriages, past instabilities, and Razak Abdul Aziz’s musical performance |
| title_short | Music as poetry and performance : arranged marriages, past instabilities, and Razak Abdul Aziz’s musical performance |
| title_sort | music as poetry and performance : arranged marriages, past instabilities, and razak abdul aziz’s musical performance |
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