Global Goes Local

Popular Culture in Asia

Edited by Timothy J. Craig & Richard King
Categories: Art & Performance Studies, Art, Regional & Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774808743, 320 pages, April 2002
Paperback : 9780774808750, 320 pages, January 2003
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774850186, 320 pages, October 2007
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774859790, 320 pages, October 2010
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Acknowledgments

Asia and Global Popular Culture: The View from He Yong's Garbage
Dump / Richard King and Timothy J. Craig

Part 1: Global versus Local -- Hybridity and Appropriation
in Asian Popular Culture

1. Hulk Hogan in the Rainforest / Peter Metcalf

2. Hybridity and Disjuncture in Mainland Chinese Popular Music /
Mercedes M. Dujunco

3. Under Attack: Mass Media Technology and Indigenous Musical
Practices in the Philippines / Michiyo Yoneno Reyes

4. Rocking East and West: The USA in Malaysian Music (An American
Remix) / Eric C. Thompson

5. Exploding Ballads: The Transformation of Korean Pop Music /
Keith Howard

Part 2: Political, Ideological, and Spiritual Tensions in
Asian Popular Culture

6. The Poetics and Politics of Sister Drum: "Tibetan"
Music in the Global Marketplace / Janet L. Upton

7. Television Drama in China: Engineering Souls for the Market /
Michael Keane

8. Moral Advertising in Malaysian TV Commercials / Todd Joseph,
Miles Holden and Azrina Husin

9. "You May Not Believe, But Never Offend the Spirits":
Spirit-Medium Cults and Popular Media in Modern Thailand / Pattana
Kitiarsa

10. Revisioning Japanese Religiosity: Osamu Tezuka's Hi no tori
(The Phoenix) / Mark MacWilliams

Part 3: The Creation, Assertion, and Representation of
Identity in Asian Popular Culture

11. Images of Asians in the Art of the Great Pacific War, 1937-45 /
Nancy Brcak and John Pavia

12. To Fight the Losing War, to Remember the Lost War: The Changing
Role of Gunka, Japanese War Songs / Junko Oba

13. The Incantation of Shanghai: Singing a City into Existence /
Isabel K.F. Wong

14. Cassettes, Bazaars, and Saving the Nation: The Uyghur Music
Industry in Xinjiang, China / Rachel Harris

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Contributors

Index

Covering topics from pop music in Korea to TV commercials in Malaysia,
this collection shows how imported cultural forms have been invested
with fresh meaning and transformed by local artists to result in new
forms of assertion and resistance.

Description

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.