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Timothy J. Craig (Ed.) - Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia - 9780774808743 - V9780774808743
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Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia

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Description for Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Craig, Timothy J.; King, Dr. Richard. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 599.

Cheap mechanical and satellite transmissions have made apredominantly North American culture available to a global audience.Does this mean that rock ’n’ roll, soap opera reruns, andprofessional wrestling will destroy Asian traditions and leave Asiannations to produce nothing but imitations of a shallow, hedonisticalien culture? Far from it!

In Global Goes Local, international scholars from a varietyof disciplinary perspectives examine different forms of popular culturein Asia. Covering topics from pop music in Korea to TV commercials inMalaysia, this collection shows how imported cultural forms can beinvested with fresh meaning and transformed by local artists to resultin new forms of assertion and ... Read more

Global Goes Local addresses significant questions beingconsidered by scholars of popular culture and offers case studies ofhow culture suffers, survives, or prospers in Asian communities in anage of global communication.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774808743
SKU
V9780774808743
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Timothy J. Craig (Ed.)
Timothy Craig is Associate Professor, Faculty ofBusiness, University of Victoria. He is the author of Japan Pop!Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture. RichardKing is Associate Professor of Chinese, Department of Pacificand Asian Studies, University of Victoria.

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