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Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania
Author | : Jeremy A. Murray,Kathleen Nadeau |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2016-08-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9798216130277 |
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This ready reference is a comprehensive guide to pop culture in Asia and Oceania, including topics such as top Korean singers, Thailand's sports heroes, and Japanese fashion. This entertaining introduction to Asian pop culture covers the global superstars, music idols, blockbuster films, and current trends—from the eclectic to the underground—of East Asia and South Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, India, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Pakistan, as well as Oceania. The rich content features an exploration of the politics and personalities of Bollywood, a look at how baseball became a huge phenomenon in Taiwan and Japan, the ways in which censorship affects social media use in these regions, and the influence of the United States on the movies, music, and Internet in Asia. Topics include contemporary literature, movies, television and radio, the Internet, sports, video games, and fashion. Brief overviews of each topic precede entries featuring key musicians, songs, published works, actors and actresses, popular websites, top athletes, video games, and clothing fads and designers. The book also contains top-ten lists, a chronology of pop culture events, and a bibliography. Sidebars throughout the text provide additional anecdotal information.
Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania
Author | : Jeremy A. Murray,Kathleen Nadeau |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2016-08-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781440839917 |
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This ready reference is a comprehensive guide to pop culture in Asia and Oceania, including topics such as top Korean singers, Thailand's sports heroes, and Japanese fashion. This entertaining introduction to Asian pop culture covers the global superstars, music idols, blockbuster films, and current trends—from the eclectic to the underground—of East Asia and South Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, India, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Pakistan, as well as Oceania. The rich content features an exploration of the politics and personalities of Bollywood, a look at how baseball became a huge phenomenon in Taiwan and Japan, the ways in which censorship affects social media use in these regions, and the influence of the United States on the movies, music, and Internet in Asia. Topics include contemporary literature, movies, television and radio, the Internet, sports, video games, and fashion. Brief overviews of each topic precede entries featuring key musicians, songs, published works, actors and actresses, popular websites, top athletes, video games, and clothing fads and designers. The book also contains top-ten lists, a chronology of pop culture events, and a bibliography. Sidebars throughout the text provide additional anecdotal information.
Global Goes Local
Author | : Timothy J. Craig,Richard King |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780774859790 |
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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.
Popular Culture in Asia
Author | : Lorna Fitzsimmons,John A. Lent |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781137270207 |
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Popular Culture in Asia consists studies of film, music, architecture, television, and computer-mediated communication in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, addressing three topics: urban modernities; modernity, celebrity, and fan culture; and memory and modernity.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture
Author | : Gary Hoppenstand |
Publsiher | : Greenwood Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 0313339562 |
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An encyclopedia describes all aspects of world culture, broken down into six regional categories, discussing the art, dance, fashion, food, pastimes, periodicals, recreation, and transportation of each region.
Environment Media and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia
Author | : Jason Paolo Telles,John Charles Ryan,Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2022-05-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789811911309 |
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This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis, participatory ethnography, auto ethnography, and semi-structured interviewing. It is divided into four sections: I. Activism, Environment, and Indigeneity; II. Political, Ecologies and Urban Spaces; III. Narratives, Discourses, and Aesthetics; and IV. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Islands, covering topics such as broadcast media (radio and TV) and the environment; green cinema and ecodocumentaries, ecodigital art, digital environmental literature. It is of great interest to researchers, students, practitioners and scholars working in the area of humanities, media, communications, cultural studies, environmental humanities, environmental studies, and sustainability.
Austronesian Soundscapes
Author | : Birgit Abels |
Publsiher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9789089640857 |
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Birgit Abels is a cultural musicologist with a primary specialization in the music of the Pacific and Southeast Asian islands. --
Geo Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture
Author | : Shiuhhuah Serena Chou,Soyoung Kim,Rob Sean Wilson |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2022-08-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783031040474 |
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This collection opens the geospatiality of “Asia” into an environmental framework called "Oceania" and pushes this complex regional multiplicity towards modes of trans-local solidarity, planetary consciousness, multi-sited decentering, and world belonging. At the transdisciplinary core of this “worlding” process lies the multiple spatial and temporal dynamics of an environmental eco-poetics, articulated via thinking and creating both with and beyond the Pacific and Asia imaginary.