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This chapter illustrates that world music has had a positive effect of validating musicians and musics of the indigenous communities in Malaysia. Despite the contradictions arising from commodification, appropriation, and detachment from social contexts, modernizing and concertizing music of the indigenous people as well as commercial recordings have generated a new interest and cultural revitalization among the younger generation. World music has helped to raise the self-esteem and dignity of the indigenous people as others become more aware of and show an interest in their music and lives. Through the new music, the indigenous people are able to articulate the anxieties they face as aggressive development agendas impact on their survival in the forest. As case studies, the chapter looks at the music of Akar Umbi, a musical group comprising indigenous and non-indigenous people based in Pertak, Selangor, and the musical resentations/workshops at the Rainforest World Music Festival in Sarawak. Keywords: Akar Umbi; cultural revitalization; indigenous communities; Malaysia; Rainforest World Music Festival; world music; younger generation

Modernizing Songs of the Forest: Indigenous Communities Negotiate Tensions of Change in Malaysia