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Chinese melodies with newly composed lyrics tailored to the local Peranakan audience. Hoo also become interested in politics in the mid-1920s, and was briefly arrested by the Dutch in 1926 for involvement in the anti-colonial movement. In 1927, when Indonesian nationalism and youth groups were being founded all everywhere, he cofounded one called
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As a youth, Hoo was attracted by the theatre, and then became fascinated by composing songs in the traditional structure of
Makassar music. By age seventeen he was already known for his performances of philosophical poems as well as songs accompanied in the traditional style by a lute or violin. He
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epic) and continued to compose poems and songs quite prolifically until his death. By the end of his life, he was estimated to have composed around 3000 songs, most in the
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style and local Makassar styles, and was given official recognition by President
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Songwriter Hoo Eng Djie and traditional music orchestra, sometime before 1941.
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