| Bangsawan: A social and stylistic history of popular Malay opera SB Tan (No Title), 1993 | 259 | 1993 |
| The music of Malaysia: The classical, folk and syncretic traditions P Matusky, TS Beng Routledge, 2017 | 199 | 2017 |
| The Chinese in Malaysia KH Lee, CB Tan Oxford University Press, 2000 | 194* | 2000 |
| Theatre in search of social change: the relative significance of different theatrical approaches. KP Epskamp Theatre in search of social change: the relative significance of different …, 1989 | 154 | 1989 |
| Music\= Cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions MJ Kartomi, S Blum Routledge, 2014 | 68 | 2014 |
| Muzik Malaysia: tradisi klasik rakyat dan sinkretik TS Beng The University of Malaya Press, 2012 | 54 | 2012 |
| Counterpoints in the performing arts of Malaysia SB Tan | 49 | 1992 |
| From folk to national popular music: Recreating ronggeng in Malaysia TS Beng Journal of Musicological Research 24 (3/4), 287, 2005 | 47 | 2005 |
| The 78 RPM record industry in Malaya prior to World War II TS Beng Asian Music 28 (1), 1-41, 1996 | 44 | 1996 |
| The performing arts in Malaysia: State and society SB Tan Asian Music 21 (1), 137-171, 1989 | 44 | 1989 |
| The" Huayue Tuan"(Chinese Orchestra) in Malaysia: Adapting to Survive TS Beng Asian music 31 (2), 107-128, 2000 | 38 | 2000 |
| From popular to" traditional" theater: The dynamics of change in bangsawan of Malaysia SB Tan Ethnomusicology 33 (2), 229-274, 1989 | 36 | 1989 |
| Activism in Southeast Asian ethnomusicology: Empowering youths to revitalize traditions and bridge cultural barriers SB Tan Musicological Annual 44 (1), 69-84, 2008 | 33 | 2008 |
| Ko-tai, a new form of Chinese urban street theatre in Malaysia SB Tan Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1984 | 27 | 1984 |
| The Chinese performing arts and cultural activities in Malaysia SB Tan The Chinese in Malaysia, 316-41, 2000 | 25 | 2000 |
| Cultural engagement and ownership through participatory approaches in applied ethnomusicology TS Beng Teoksessa The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, toim. Svanibor …, 2015 | 24 | 2015 |
| Negotiating ‘His Master’s Voice’: Gramophone music and cosmopolitan modernity in British Malaya in the 1930s and Early 1940s TS Beng Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-en volkenkunde/Journal of the Humanities and …, 2013 | 21 | 2013 |
| The lion dances to the fore: Articulating Chinese identities in Penang and Medan TS Beng 国立民族学博物館調査報告 65, 63-78, 2007 | 21 | 2007 |
| Modernizing songs of the forest: Indigenous communities negotiate tensions of change in Malaysia TS Beng Sonic Modernities in the Malay world, 353-370, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| Susceptibility of Culex sitiens to Japanese encephalitis virus in peninsular Malaysia I Vythilingam, SB Tan, M Krishnasamy Tropical Medicine & International Health 7 (6), 539-540, 2002 | 19 | 2002 |
