The Production of Locality in Global Pop – A Comparative Study of Pop Fans in the Netherlands and Hong Kong

Studies on fandom show an Anglo-Saxon bias and most of them take gender, age, s class as the key to understand fandom.Following globalisation theory, this study arg importance to include locality as an explanatory category.Comparing fans of local st Kong pop star Leon Lai and his Dutch counterpart Marco Borsato -this study finds st differences.In general, while the Dutch fans see Marco as an ordinary human being, Kong fans characterise Leon as an extraordinary worker.The different characterisati authors argue, are informed by the dominant discourse on being ordinary, emotional humanitarian in the Dutch society at large, as well as that on being more than ordina hardworking and proud in the Hong Kong context.Music fandom is interpreted as a w locality, to provide a sense of home

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