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Title Global goes local : popular culture in Asia / edited by Timothy J. Craig and Richard King.

Publication Info. Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-295) and index.
Summary Cheap mechanical and satellite transmissions have made a predominantly North American culture available to a global audience. Does this mean that rock 'n' roll, soap opera reruns, and professional wrestling will destroy Asian traditions and leave Asian nations to produce nothing but imitations of a shallow, hedonistic alien culture? Far from it! In Global Goes Local, international scholars from a variety of disciplinary perspectives examine different forms of popular culture in Asia. Covering topics from pop music in Korea to TV commercials in Malaysia, this collection shows how imported cultural forms can be invested with fresh meaning and transformed by local artists to result in new forms of assertion and resistance that also meet the needs of their particular audiences. Global Goes Local addresses significant questions being considered by scholars of popular culture and offers case studies of how culture suffers, survives, or prospers in Asian communities in an age of global communication.
Contents Asia and global popular culture : the view from He Yong's Garbage Dump / Richard King and Timothy J. Craig -- Hulk Hogan in the rainforest / Peter Metcalf -- Hybridity and disjuncture in mainland Chinese popular music / Mercedes M. Dujunco.
Under attack : mass media technology and indigenous musical practices in the Philippines / Michiyo Yoneno Reyes -- Rocking east and west : the USA in Malaysian music (an American remix) / Eric C. Thompson -- Exploding ballads : the transformation of Korean pop music / Keith Howard -- Politics and poetics of Sister Drum : "Tibetan" music in the global marketplace / Janet L. Upton -- Television drama in China : engineering souls for the market / Michael Keane -- Moral advertising in Malaysian TV commercials / Todd Joseph Miles Holden and Azrina Husin.
"You may not believe, but never offend the spirits" : spirit-medium cults and popular media in modern Thailand / Pattana Kitiarsa -- Revisioning Japanese religiosity : Osamu Tezuka's Hi no tori (The Phoenix) / Mark W. MacWilliams -- Images of Asians in the art of the Great Pacific War, 1937-45 / Nancy Brcak and John Pavla -- To fight the losing war, to remember the lost war : the changing role of Gunka, Japanese war songs / Junko Oba -- Incantation of Shanghai : singing a city into existence / Isabel K.F. Wong -- Cassettes, bazaars, and saving the nation : the Uyghur music industry in Xinjiang, China / Rachel Harris.
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Subject Popular culture -- East Asia.
Popular culture.
East Asia.
Popular culture -- East Asia -- Western influences.
Popular culture -- Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia.
Popular culture -- Southeast Asia -- Western influences.
Globalization -- Social aspects -- East Asia.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia.
Asia -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author King, Richard, 1951 February 5-
Craig, Timothy J., 1947-
Other Form: Print version: Global goes local. Vancouver, B.C. : University of British Columbia Press, ©2002 0774808748 (DLC) 2002416167 (OCoLC)49238693
ISBN 0774808748
9780774808743
0774850183
9780774850186
0774808756 (paperback)
9780774808750 (paperback)
1283129671
9781283129671