Countries are distinguished by their cultural identity and this is normally expressed through their people, heritage, architecture and arts. These attributes have the ability to attract visitors to the country that has the sense of place and imprint the memories on the visitors while instilling...

In the early, high and late colonial periods, i.e., beginning in the early 17th century, most writings on the Southeast Asian performing arts were by foreign scholars, were court-centric, and aimed at objective accounts of syntax, theory and instruments. In the post-colonial, post-Vietnam war...

Since its golden era in the Malay States in the 1920s, the Bangsawan art form was categorized as an urban theatre, due to the rapid urbanization in the cities the art form has been performed. This is a rarely discussed issue as the existing research focuses more on the elements of performing arts...

Malaysia has many ethnic groups, and each ethnic group has own custom and tradition that most Malaysians are not aware, especially traditional dances. Among the Malaysian states, Sabah and Sarawak, situated in the Borneo Island have the most diverse ethnic groups in Sarawak. It has more than 30...

Cultural tourism is one of the fastest growing areas of tourism. In its widest definition, it encompasses both 'high' and 'low' culture including visit to museums and art galleries and to football matches, performance of music both popular and classical, pilgrimages to literary sites. Specifically, ...

Besides P. Ramlee, Yasmin Ahmad's name is synonymous with Malaysian cinema. The award-winning Malaysian filmmaker's death impacted not only the Malaysian film industry but also those who admired her work. The late legendary filmmaker was a liberal Islamic Malaysian who explored Islam and humanity...

The choice of language used in singing has an effect on children's response towards music. As multiple languages are used among the Foochow community in Sarikei, which is located in Sarawak, East Malaysia, they provide the researcher an opportunity to observe the influence of different languages,...

This anthology celebrates dancing diversities in Malaysia, a multicultural nation with old and not-so-old dance traditions in a synchronicity of history, creativity, inventions and representation of its people, culture and traditions. These articles and interviews document the legacy of dances from ...

The five articles in this issue stem from papers presented at a seminar on 'Britain and the Malay World' held in London, UK, in May 2007. The papers selected for this issue take literature, theatre and cinema as their focus, though the conference as a whole took a much broader disciplinary sweep....

In this paper, the implementation of music in government preschools is studied from three aspects, namely music activities, teachers' perception of the role of music in preschool education, and teachers' self efficacy in music teaching. A questionnaire, which was designed according to the local...