How has traditional Malay performing arts fared amidst modernization and moral policing? How do we continue to critically think through the meaning of tradition as something that is dynamic and ever evolving? Lawrence Ross, an ethnomusicologist at Universiti Malaya joins Fuad and Sharaad this week to explore those questions.

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