"First published in Canada by UBC Press ... Vancouver"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-295) and index.
Contents:
Exploding ballads: the transformation of Korean pop music / Keith Howard Global versus local: hybridity and appropriation in Asian popular culture -- Hulk Hogan in the rainforest / Peter Metcalf -- Hybridity and disjuncture in mainland Chinese popular music / Mercedes M. Dujunco -- Under attack: mass media technology and indigenous musical practices in the Philippines / Michiyo Yoneno Reyes -- Rocking East and West: the USA in Malaysian music (an American remix) / Eric C. Thompson -- Exploding ballads: the transformation of Korean pop music / Keith Howard Revisioning Japanese religiosity: Osamu Tezuka's Hi no tori (The Phoenix) / The politics and poetics of Sister Drum: "Tibetan" music in the global marketplace / Mark W. MacWilliams Television drama in China: engineering souls for the market / Michael Keane -- Moral advertising in Malaysian TV commercials / Todd Joseph Miles Holden and Azrina Hustin -- "You may not believe, but never offend the spirits": spirit-medium cults and popular media in modern Thailand / Pattana Kitiarsa -- Revisioning Japanese religiosity: Osamu Tezuka's Hi no tori (The Phoenix) / Mark W. MacWilliams The Cassettes, bazaars, and saving the nation: the Uyghur music industry in Xinjiang, China / Images of Asians in the art of the great Pacific War, 1937-45 / Rachel Harris To fight the losing war, to remember the lost war: the changing role of Gunka, Japanese war songs / Junko Oba -- The incantation of Shanghai: singing a city into existence / Isabel K.F. Wong -- Cassettes, bazaars, and saving the nation: the Uyghur music industry in Xinjiang, China / Rachel Harris
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