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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Craig, Timothy J., 1947-

King, Richard, 1951 February 5-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Asia.

Popular culture.

Asia--Social life and customs.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, B.C. : University of British Columbia Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

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:

Intro; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Global Goes Local; Asia and Global Popular Culture: The View from He Yong's Garbage Dump; Part 1: Global versus Local - Hybridity and Appropriation in Asian Popular Culture; Part 2: Political, Ideological, and Spiritual Tensions in Asian Popular Culture; Part 3: The Creation, Assertion, and Representation of Identity in Asian Popular Culture; Bibliography; Credits; Contributors; Index; 1 Hulk Hogan in the Rainforest; 2 Hybridity and Disjuncture in Mainland Chinese Popular Music

3 Under Attack: Mass Media Technology and Indigenous Musical Practices in the Philippines4 Rocking East and West: The USA in Malaysian Music (An American Remix); 5 Exploding Ballads: The Transformation of Korean Pop Music; 6 The Politics and Poetics of Sister Drum: "Tibetan" Music in the Global Marketplace; 7 Television Drama in China: Engineering Souls for the Market; 8 Moral Advertising in Malaysian TV Commercials; 9 "You May Not Believe, But Never Offend the Spirits": Spirit- Medium Cults and Popular Media in Modern Thailand

10 Revisioning Japanese Religiosity: Osamu Tezuka's Hi no tori (The Phoenix)11 Images of Asians in the Art of the Great Pacific War, 1937-45; 12 To Fight the Losing War, to Remember the Lost War: The Changing Role of Gunka, Japanese War Songs; 13 The Incantation of Shanghai: Singing a City into Existence; 14 Cassettes, Bazaars, and Saving the Nation: The Uyghur Music Industry in Xinjiang, China

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-295) and index.

ISBN:

9786613129673

9781283129671

1283129671

9780774850186

0774850183

OCLC:

70717613