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    Open Access
    The pirates of Penzance
    (2023) ;
    Ooi, Matthew Choong Hean
    ;
    Tan, Yi Ler
    ;
    Muhamad Yusri Mohamed Ali
      9  187
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    Open Access
    Learning through popular music, lessons for the general music programme syllabus in Singapore
    (Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education, Singapore, 2024) ;
    Hilarian, Larry Francis
    ;
    Stead, Peter
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    This project sought to investigate the identity, role and function of popular music within classroom-based education in Singapore.

    Popular music is characterised by: (i) lnterdisclplinarity (music, dance, poetry, theatre, etc); (ii) It suffuses the lives of school-going youth in their out-of-school curriculum. (iii) Skill acquisition is frequently gained through more informal learning than is usual in institutional settings (Green, 2002). (iv) Participation in popular music by various communities seems to cut across ethnic, religious and age boundaries, which makes popular music participation an interesting study in social integration. (v) Engaging in popular music potentially provides students life-long engagement The impact of popular music in the classroom has not been fully explored.

    Creating, performing and responding to popular music genres arguably act as an apt medium of and for self expression considering the complex nature of an ever-shifting demographic mix and strategies to bring about more effective social integration across communities-of-practice (Wenger 1998) engaging the later cosmopolitan society in Singapore.

    The GMP (2008) document supports the value of popular music beginning with musical skills of composing, improvising and recreating extending to identity formation and multiplicity in identity negotiation in group dynamics (MOE 2008, pp. 7-10). Current broader educational aims are to develop creative, imaginative and socio-culturally well-tempered individuals and popular music has an important educational role to play in this respect. Dairianathan and Lum (2010) have discovered how popular musics re/iterate their place in the music curriculum for music as lived and living space.

    Secondary factors crucial to this research are: (a) to examine the place of popular music in local public and international schools across Singapore, (b) to draw out the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for school-going youth to be engaged in popular music and (c) to critically examine popular music immersion in relation to the objectives established in the GMP syllabus (MOE 2008).

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    Open Access
    50 years of song selection
    (2023) ;
    Ooi, Matthew Choong Hean
    ;
    Tan, Yi Ler
    ;
    Muhamad Yusri Mohamed Ali
      21  442
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    Open Access
    Music and heritage: A study through Chu Chin Chow and the Orchid
    (2023) ;
    Ooi, Matthew Choong Hean
    ;
    Tan, Yi Ler
    ;
    Muhamad Yusri Mohamed Ali
      85  2093
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    Open Access
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    Open Access
    Four Indian love lyrics
    (2023) ;
    Ooi, Matthew Choong Hean
    ;
    Tan, Yi Ler
    ;
    Muhamad Yusri Mohamed Ali
      24  133
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    Open Access
    The orchid
    (2023) ;
    Ooi, Matthew Choong Hean
    ;
    Tan, Yi Ler
    ;
    Muhamad Yusri Mohamed Ali
      15  522
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    Open Access
    Book Review [Review of the book Sonic city: Making rock music and urban life in Singapore by Steve Ferzacca]
    (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
    Sonic City is built around the author’s serendipitous meeting with ‘Kiang’, bassist for popular 1960s and 1970s Singapore band The Straydogs, while shopping for a guitar at Guitar 77 in Peninsula Shopping Centre where the musician was working as store manager. The author becomes part of an impromptu-formed band, Blues 77, with Kiang and other members of The Straydogs, while studying their lived musical experiences through ‘sonic ethnography’ (18). This involves reconstructing and reliving past and present narratives of ‘vernacular heritage’ in Singapore, including tours to other parts of Southeast Asia which are nevertheless experienced and understood through a Singaporean lens.
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    Open Access
    Festival of empire
    (2023) ;
    Ooi, Matthew Choong Hean
    ;
    Tan, Yi Ler
    ;
    Muhamad Yusri Mohamed Ali
      15  141