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This is an ethnography of listening and a study of the production, circulation, and reproduction of regional pop among the Toraja people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. In the Toraja region (Tana Toraja), entrepreneurial Indonesian musicians and producers have reacted to political…

This dissertation is a study of the way the Torajans of south Sulawesi Indonesia use poetics in conjunction with politics in the context of a tradition of cultural performances in the kingly death ritual practice. Thus, this dissertation is about poetical and rhetorical mechanis…