Yasser Mattar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1602660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yasser Mattar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yasser |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattar |
| SIGNATURE | MATTAR Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What's so Special about Agglomeration? A Survival Analysis of Internet Consultancies in Australia
Popular cultural cringe
This article looks at the popular music industry in Singapore and argues that there exists a 'cultural cringe' for domestic English-language music, which is considered as inferior to English-language music from Western countries. Singaporean consumers of popular music use the English language as a signifier of authenticity and consequently quality of musicians. Local musicians are deemed 'inauthentic' because consumers perceive the local variant …
Miso Soup for the Ears
This essay looks at Japanese popular music in the 2000s. It compares and contrasts Japanese musical stylistics with that of the corresponding Anglophonic stylistics by looking at four genres. It argues that while Japanese hip hop and rock are affinitive to Anglophonic hip hop and rock, this affinity is due to both Japanese and Anglophonic artists' conformity to a stylistic formula, rather than Japanese artists being clones of their Anglophonic co…
Arab ethnic enterprises in colonial Singapore
Ethnic entrepreneurs often concentrate in specific economic activities. Arab entrepreneurs in Singapore from the time of their first recorded arrivals in 1819 until the 1850s were concentrated in the consumer goods industry. The exit of the Arabs from consumer goods provision saw them moving into the real estate industry in the 1880s, where they remained concentrated until the 1940s. By the 1970s, however, no visible concentration of Arab entrepr…
Habituation and choice in the process of consumption
Virtual communities and hip‐hop music consumers in Singapore
Activities and pursuits in leisure worlds often occur within subcultural contexts. Subcultural studies, however, have often premised the formation and existence of subcultures on the local. Wider local cultures have often been thought to have an impact on these subcultures. Even where subcultures have been 'imported' into a particular locality from another local setting, the focus has often been on how the subculture has been 'localized' by the '…
Virtual communities and hip‐hop music consumers in Singapore
Activities and pursuits in leisure worlds often occur within subcultural contexts. Subcultural studies, however, have often premised the formation and existence of subcultures on the local. Wider local cultures have often been thought to have an impact on these subcultures. Even where subcultures have been 'imported' into a particular locality from another local setting, the focus has often been on how the subculture has been 'localized' by the '…
Popular cultural cringe
This article looks at the popular music industry in Singapore and argues that there exists a 'cultural cringe' for domestic English-language music, which is considered as inferior to English-language music from Western countries. Singaporean consumers of popular music use the English language as a signifier of authenticity and consequently quality of musicians. Local musicians are deemed 'inauthentic' because consumers perceive the local variant …
Arab ethnic enterprises in colonial Singapore
Ethnic entrepreneurs often concentrate in specific economic activities. Arab entrepreneurs in Singapore from the time of their first recorded arrivals in 1819 until the 1850s were concentrated in the consumer goods industry. The exit of the Arabs from consumer goods provision saw them moving into the real estate industry in the 1880s, where they remained concentrated until the 1940s. By the 1970s, however, no visible concentration of Arab entrepr…
Miso Soup for the Ears
This essay looks at Japanese popular music in the 2000s. It compares and contrasts Japanese musical stylistics with that of the corresponding Anglophonic stylistics by looking at four genres. It argues that while Japanese hip hop and rock are affinitive to Anglophonic hip hop and rock, this affinity is due to both Japanese and Anglophonic artists' conformity to a stylistic formula, rather than Japanese artists being clones of their Anglophonic co…
Habituation and choice in the process of consumption
Habituation and choice in the process of consumption
Virtual communities and hip‐hop music consumers in Singapore
Activities and pursuits in leisure worlds often occur within subcultural contexts. Subcultural studies, however, have often premised the formation and existence of subcultures on the local. Wider local cultures have often been thought to have an impact on these subcultures. Even where subcultures have been 'imported' into a particular locality from another local setting, the focus has often been on how the subculture has been 'localized' by the '…
Arab ethnic enterprises in colonial Singapore
Ethnic entrepreneurs often concentrate in specific economic activities. Arab entrepreneurs in Singapore from the time of their first recorded arrivals in 1819 until the 1850s were concentrated in the consumer goods industry. The exit of the Arabs from consumer goods provision saw them moving into the real estate industry in the 1880s, where they remained concentrated until the 1940s. By the 1970s, however, no visible concentration of Arab entrepr…
Miso Soup for the Ears
This essay looks at Japanese popular music in the 2000s. It compares and contrasts Japanese musical stylistics with that of the corresponding Anglophonic stylistics by looking at four genres. It argues that while Japanese hip hop and rock are affinitive to Anglophonic hip hop and rock, this affinity is due to both Japanese and Anglophonic artists' conformity to a stylistic formula, rather than Japanese artists being clones of their Anglophonic co…
What's so Special about Agglomeration? A Survival Analysis of Internet Consultancies in Australia
Popular cultural cringe
This article looks at the popular music industry in Singapore and argues that there exists a 'cultural cringe' for domestic English-language music, which is considered as inferior to English-language music from Western countries. Singaporean consumers of popular music use the English language as a signifier of authenticity and consequently quality of musicians. Local musicians are deemed 'inauthentic' because consumers perceive the local variant …
Business (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works)