Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-211) and index.

Capitalism and cultural relativity : the Thai pop industry, capitalism, and Western cultural values / Michael Hayes -- Popping the myth of Chinese rock / David Stokes -- World music, cultural heteroglossia and indigenous capital : overlapping frequencies in the emergence of cosmpolitanism in Taiwan / Allen Chun -- The imagined community of Maa Tujhe Salaam : the global and the local in the post-colonial / Rangan Chakravarty -- Global industry, national politics : popular music in 'new order' Indonesia / Krishna Sen and David T. Hill -- The case of the irritating song : Suman Chatterjee and modern Bengali music / Sudipto Chatterjee -- Magical mystical tourism : (debate dub version) / John Hutnyk -- 'Love never dies' : romance and Christian symbolism in a Japanese rock video / Carolyn S. Stevens -- Japanese popular music in Hong Kong : what does TK present? / Masashi Ogawa -- Raising the ante of desire : foreign female singers in a Japanese pop music world / Christine R. Yano -- Pop music as post colonial nostalgia in Taiwan / Jeremy E. Taylor -- Popular music and interculturality : the dynamic presence of pop music in contemporary Balinese performance / Zachar Laskewicz.