The current issue of the Journal Popular Music is a special issue focussing on East Asian Popular Music and it's (dis)contents is now available.
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Essays include:
Strumming a place of one's own: gender, independence and the East Asian pop-rock screen
Eva Tsai and Hyunjoon Shin
English and identity in East Asian popular musicEva Tsai and Hyunjoon Shin
Phil Benson
Representing Japan: ‘national’ style among Japanese hip-hop DJs
Noriko Manabe
Noriko Manabe
The poetics of resistance and the politics of crossing borders: Korean hip-hop and ‘cultural reterritorialisation’
Hae-Kyung Um
Hae-Kyung Um
Remapping Hong Kong popular music: covers, localisation and the waning hybridity of Cantopop
Yiu-Wai Chu and Eve Leung
Yiu-Wai Chu and Eve Leung
Deliberating fandom and the new wave of Chinese pop: a case study of Chris Li
Anthony Fung
Anthony Fung
Troubling genre, ethnicity and geopolitics in Taiwanese American independent rock music
Wendy F. Hsu
‘A new stereophonic sound spectacular’: Shibuya-kei as transnational soundscapeWendy F. Hsu
Martin Roberts
