6 The Politics and Poetics of Sister Drum: “Tibetan” Music in the Global Marketplace

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Asia and Global Popular Culture: The View from He Yong’s Garbage Dump 3
6. Global versus Local–Hybridity and Appropriation in Asian Popular Culture
7. Hulk Hogan in the Rainforest 15
8. Hybridity and Disjuncture in Mainland Chinese Popular Music 25
9. Under Attack: Mass Media Technology and Indigenous Musical Practices in the Philippines 40
10. Rocking East and West: The USA in Malaysian Music (An American Remix) 58
11. Exploding Ballads: The Transformation of Korean Pop Music 80
12. Political, Ideological, and Spiritual Tensions in Asian Popular Culture
13. The Politics and Poetics of Sister Drum: “Tibetan” Music in the Global Marketplace 99
14. Television Drama in China: Engineering Souls for the Market 120
15. Moral Advertising in Malaysian TV Commercials 138
16. “You May Not Believe, But Never Offend the Spirits”: Spirit-Medium Cults and Popular Media in Modern Thailand 160
17. Revisioning Japanese Religiosity: Osamu Tezuka’s Hi no tori (The Phoenix) 177
18. The Creation, Assertion, and Representation of Identity in Asian Popular Culture
19. Images of Asians in the Art of the Great Pacific War, 1937–45 211
20. To Fight the Losing War, to Remember the Lost War: The Changing Role of Gunka, Japanese War Songs 225
21. The Incantation of Shanghai: Singing a City into Existence 246
22. Cassettes, Bazaars, and Saving the Nation: The Uyghur Music Industry in Xinjiang, China 265
23. Bibliography 284
24. Credits 296
25. Contributors 299
26. Index 302