ISBN:
0203641833
,
0700714014
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 219 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
ConsumAsiaN book series
Series Statement:
ConsumAsian Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Refashioning Pop Music in Asia : Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic
DDC:
306.4095
Keywords:
Popular music Political aspects
;
Popular music Social aspects
;
Popular music History and criticism
;
Popular music ; Asia ; History and criticism
;
Popular music ; Political aspects ; Asia
;
Popular music ; Social aspects ; Asia
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection of thirteen essays examines cultural, political, economic, technological and institutional aspects of popular music across Asia, from India to Japan
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Refashioning Pop Music in Asia; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: cultural imaginaries, musical communities, reflexive practices; Part I Musical cultures and culture industries; 1 Capitalism and cultural relativity: the Thai pop industry, capitalism and Western cultural values; 2 Popping the myth of Chinese rock; 3 World music, cultural heteroglossia and indigenous capital: overlapping frequencies in the emergence of cosmopolitanism in Taiwan
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Local appropriations: from nation-building to happy pop and folk resistance4 The imagined community of Maa Tujhe Salaam: the global and the local in the postcolonial; 5 Global industry, national politics: popular music in 'New Order' Indonesia; 6 The case of the irritating song: Suman Chatterjee and modern Bengali music; Part III Travelling theories, syncretic exoticisms, or diffusion by any other name?; 7 Magical mystical tourism (debate dub version); 8 'Love Never Dies': romance and Christian symbolism in a Japanese rock video
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Japanese popular music in Hong Kong: what does TK present?Part IV Colonial desire, social memory and popular sensuality as performance genres; 10 Raising the ante of desire: foreign female singers in a Japanese pop music world; 11 Pop music as postcolonial nostalgia in Taiwan; 12 Popular music and interculturality: the dynamic presence of pop music in contemporary Balinese performance; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-211) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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