1st Edition
Refashioning Pop Music in Asia Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Examining the cultural, political, economic, technological and institutional aspects of popular music throughout Asia, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of Asian popular music and its cultural industries. Concentrating on the development of popular culture in its local socio-political context, the volume highlights how local appropriations of the pop music genre play an active rather... Read more
Part 1: Musical Cultures and Culture Industries Part 2: Local Appropriations: From Nation-Building to Happy Pop and Folk Resistance Part 3: Travelling Theories, Syncretic Exoticisms or Diffusion by Any Other Name? Part 4: Colonial Desire, Social Memory and Popular Sensuality as Performance Genres
Biography
Allen Chun is Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Ned Rossiter is Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Brian Shoesmith is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at Edith Cowan University, Australia and Head of the Centre for Asian Communication, Media and Cultural Studies.
