Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, by Brian Shoesmith,Allen Chun,Ned Rossiter

By Brian Shoesmith,Allen Chun,Ned Rossiter

Examining the cultural, political, monetary, technological and institutional facets of renowned track all through Asia, this publication is the 1st accomplished research of Asian renowned tune and its cultural industries. focusing on the improvement of pop culture in its neighborhood socio-political context, the amount highlights how neighborhood appropriations of the pop song style play an energetic instead of reactive position in manipulating worldwide cultural and capital flows.


Broad in geographical sweep and wealthy in modern examples, this paintings will entice these attracted to Asian pop culture from numerous views together with, political economic system, anthropology, verbal exchange stories, media reports and ethnomusicology.

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