Bangsawan: A Social and Stylistic History of Popular Malay Opera

by Tan Sooi Beng

Bangsawan --the first popular urban commercial theatre in Malaysia--emerged in the late nineteenth century as an adaptation of the Parsi theatre of India which toured Malaya. This book traces stylistic changes of Bangsawan from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s, linking these changes to
socio-political transformations in Malaysian society.

286 pages, Hardcover

First published March 25, 1993