Stars to the State and Beyond

Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music

Bibliographic Data

ID3607368
AuthorsJennifer Milioto Matsue (corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume72
Issue1
Pages5-20
Publication date2013-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021911812001763
OpenAlexW2109111911
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited38

Popular music is a dynamic portal through which to gain a greater understanding of a vast array of social phenomena within Asia. In particular, the power of pop to actively shape conceptions of self and inform the ways in which we interact with others at the individual, communal, and even national and transnational levels has taken center stage, but understanding just how these identities are formed through the performance of popular music is quite complex in the current global moment. Through comparison of recent scholarship covering diverse types of popular music throughout Asia, this article explores how identity formation is informed by an increasingly nuanced understanding of globalization. Moving from a most intimate sense to broad transnational and inter-ethnic contexts, it not only expands the concept of identity in Asia, but also reveals how the study of popular music in general can illuminate other social issues important to Asianists

Aesthetics · Art · Globalization · Identity (music · Literature · Political economy · Political science · Popular music · Power (physics · Scholarship · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law

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