This chapter looks at 'modernities' through a span of multiple histories and geographies, focussing into keyframes in various space-times beyond Western modernity.

 

Eschewing linear chronology and all-encompassing geographical representation under the guise of 'world history', the keyframes would zoom in on specific encounters where modernity is contested, re-appropriated and re-imagined. 

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This chapter opens with Faris Joraimi's contribution, "I Sing the City Electric: Modern Singapore Envisioned in Popular Malay Music".