Bibliography Log 1.0

For the annotated bibliography essay, I've gone through and read a lot of literature related to my topic. I have looked at my research from different sources of discipline. I looked at literature about culture, then realized it is influenced heavily by globalization. So my next big topic is globalization and read more about that. Looked at some literature about sociology and anthropology, and the obvious literature about Peranakan culture. Most of the literature I found about Peranakan culture is at least 10 years old with most of them talking only about history. There is clearly a literature gap about modernized Peranakan culture, or the Peranakan culture of today.

One of the most interesting book I found was "Culture Crash: the Killing of the Creative Class" by Scott Timberg. This book explores the reasons why artists and those who work in the creative industry are struggling to make ends meet in today’s world therefore leading them to give up, and when these artists stop working is when culture is dead. Timberg came up with a day-job principle, where artists still need to have a day job, because whatever they are doing with their art, is not going to be enough for them to make a living out of. And I have found proof of this to be true, where a recent article I read mentioned that a Peranakan beaded shoes craftsman is no longer doing his crafts because he is now doing cobbler work 6 days a week to make ends meet, also part of the reasons why is because the workshop he used to worked at for three decades has closed down. This book also highlights the importance of having this cultural space. It mentions the common denominator of the loss of culture, which is the internet. For example, the internet leads to the loss of record shops and bookstores, and when we lose the kinds of gathering places that allow people-oriented culture to meet and connect, we lose our context. In order to create a cultural creative scene, people from the same generation must gather together, the younger generation may drift away from the traditional restriction but it is essential in establishing them.

Bibliography check:

Isar, Yudhishthir Raj, et al. Heritage, Memory & Identity. SAGE Publications, 2016.

Lee, Peter. Sarong Kebaya: Peranakan Fashion in an Interconnected World, 1500-1950. Asian Civilisations Museum, 2014

Rabinow, Paul, et al. Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary. Duke University Press, 2009

Schafer, D. Paul. The Age of Culture. Rock's Mills Press, 2014.

Schein, Edgar H. Organizational Culture and Leadership. Wiley, 2017.

Timberg, Scott. Culture Crash: the Killing of the Creative Class. Yale University Press, 2016.

Velayutham, Selvaraj. Responding to Globalization: Nation, Culture, and Identity in Singapore. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007

Wise, J. Macgregor. Cultural Globalization: a User's Guide. Blackwell, 2008