Publication: The practice of creative music and dance performances: Of the Asli Mala group
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2021-01-01
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24081213
22288279
22288279
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Mahidol University
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Journal of Urban Culture Research. Vol.22, (2021), 92-103
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Rungnapa Sathittham, Nantida Chandransu The practice of creative music and dance performances: Of the Asli Mala group. Journal of Urban Culture Research. Vol.22, (2021), 92-103. doi:10.14456/jucr.2021.7 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/75869
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The practice of creative music and dance performances: Of the Asli Mala group
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What are the contexts and conditions important to the sustainability of an expressive culture, especially in the face of an everchanging socio-cultural environment? This research examines the strategies used by the Asli Mala performance group to adapt the traditional rong ngeng Pattani performance into their creative repretoire. Using data gathered from observations and interviews during fieldwork in 2018-19 and drawing on Bourdieu's practice theory, I asked: How might we read Asli Mala's creative works in terms of fields, capitals and strategies? While I argue that there are dominant and dominated agents operating under four subfields, the strategies employed by the Asli Mala involve a constant negotiation of their performance productions to meet the terms and conditions of the subfields. These strategies emerged from changing habitus caused by the accumulation and expansion of different forms of capital. Despite its popularity, these new performances are still considered unauthentic by traditional rong ngeng Pattani advocates.