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Music, identity, and the impact of tourism in the Portuguese settlement, Melaka, Malaysia

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"""Historical Melaka,"" a key theme in Malaysia's most rapidly expanding industry--tourism--is dominated by the romantic picture of adventurous Portuguese seafarers who arrived in 1511, were captivated by local beauties, and left a human legacy that has survived against all odds. In this dissertation, I examine how a distinct Portuguese community has, in fact, been constructed over the last half century and how its members have manipulated their ""rediscovered"" cultural identity only after being relocated from an ethnically mixed hamlet by colonial administrators concerned with preventing their imminent assimilation."

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