Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia

by Timothy J. Craig

Has the global spread of predominantly North American popular culture forced Asian nations and communities to produce nothing but pale imitations of a shallow, hedonistic alien culture? Far from it Global Goes Local examines popular culture from pop music in contemporary Korea and pre-war Shanghai to television dramas in China and TV commercials in Malaysia. International scholars with varying disciplinary perspectives show how imported cultural forms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824826116
• ISBN13: 9780824826116
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.9"