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Global Goes Local

Popular Culture in Asia
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2007

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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.

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Timothy Craig is Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, University of Victoria. He is the author of Japan Pop! Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture. Richard King is Associate Professor of Chinese, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria.

Reviews

John Lent, editor of the International Journal of Comic Art and Asian Cinema:
Global Goes Local is an important pathfinder in international popular culture studies ... superbly organized and written for the mutual enjoyment of academic devotees and fans of Asian popular culture.

Craig Lockard, author of Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia:
Whether imported, locally inspired, or a hybrid, popular culture forms play a significant role in modern Asia. This important collection brings together recent scholarship on popular culture in a variety of countries. Written in a most accessible style, these high-quality essays will be valuable both to academic specialists and to the general reader.

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    Front Matter

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    Contents

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    Figures

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    Acknowledgments

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    Asia and Global Popular Culture: The View from He Yong’s Garbage Dump

    3
    Richard King and Timothy J. Craig
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  • Global versus Local–Hybridity and Appropriation in Asian Popular Culture
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    Hulk Hogan in the Rainforest

    15
    Peter Metcalf
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    Hybridity and Disjuncture in Mainland Chinese Popular Music

    25
    Mercedes M. Dujunco
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    Under Attack: Mass Media Technology and Indigenous Musical Practices in the Philippines

    40
    Michiyo Yoneno Reyes
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    Rocking East and West: The USA in Malaysian Music (An American Remix)

    58
    Eric C. Thompson
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    Exploding Ballads: The Transformation of Korean Pop Music

    80
    Keith Howard
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  • Political, Ideological, and Spiritual Tensions in Asian Popular Culture
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    The Politics and Poetics of Sister Drum: “Tibetan” Music in the Global Marketplace

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    Janet L. Upton
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    Television Drama in China: Engineering Souls for the Market

    120
    Michael Keane
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    Moral Advertising in Malaysian TV Commercials

    138
    Todd Joseph Miles Holden and Azrina Husin
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    “You May Not Believe, But Never Offend the Spirits”: Spirit-Medium Cults and Popular Media in Modern Thailand

    160
    Pattana Kitiarsa
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    Revisioning Japanese Religiosity: Osamu Tezuka’s Hi no tori (The Phoenix)

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    Mark W. MacWilliams
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  • The Creation, Assertion, and Representation of Identity in Asian Popular Culture
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    Images of Asians in the Art of the Great Pacific War, 1937–45

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    Nancy Brcak and John R. Pavia
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    To Fight the Losing War, to Remember the Lost War: The Changing Role of Gunka, Japanese War Songs

    225
    Junko Oba
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    The Incantation of Shanghai: Singing a City into Existence

    246
    Isabel K.F. Wong
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    Cassettes, Bazaars, and Saving the Nation: The Uyghur Music Industry in Xinjiang, China

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    Rachel Harris
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    Bibliography

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    Credits

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    Contributors

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    Index

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