Bin Muhid, Syamsul Hirdi
(2022)
Popular music careers: Arguing contemporary strategy for the hybridised but disempowered Akademi Fantasia musicians in the Malaysian music industry.
PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.
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Abstract
This thesis examines pop musicians’ career experience by focusing on Malaysian music reality television ‘graduates’, namely Akademi Fantasia’s (AF’s) musicians. The show, which is a remarkable music television hybrid, holds the national record as the ‘Longest Running Singing Reality Television Show’ in the 2017 Malaysia Book of Records and has remarkably produced over 170 pop music stars in its 13 series. This cultural production phenomenon is interesting in its own right but is made particularly distinctive by the contrast between AF’s core proposition – that the show offers access to existing music industry star-making practices (‘talent spotting’ and career ‘nurturing’) – and the fact that the show’s ‘graduates’ are often represented as ‘instant noodles’, as individuals with low ‘staying power’ in the Malaysian music industry. Hence, this thesis begins with an enquiry through a practice-led approach, namely the author’s autoethnographic appraisal as a former AF graduate and a practising industry professional; and is supported by interviewing selected AF graduates. As the popular music career is neglected in the scholarly discourse, especially in the Malaysian context, this thesis fills that gap whilst offering a contemporary career strategy for the hybridised but disempowered pop musicians who the AF hybrid seems to be exploiting. In addition, it provides insights to such musicians, which will help them to prosper after leaving the show and survive in the increasingly disempowering music industry.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | pop music industry, music career, music reality television. |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2022 10:37 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 20:56 |
| DOI: | 10.17638/03158140 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3158140 |
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