
Cultural Globalization
A User's Guide
J. Macgregor Wise(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 22. April 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
186 pages
978-0-631-23539-2 (ISBN)
Description
Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide is a personal and idiosyncratic journey through theories of culture and globalization. Drawing on diverse research literature from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studies, J. Macgregor Wise presents a new perspective through which to raise questions about globalization, a perspective framed by the concepts of territory, identity, and culture. This lively and engaging book draws on a myriad of examples from Asian, European, and North American youth culture and popular music. In the end, this book is a vivid reminder that global processes are a part of who we are and what we do, and that these same processes carry with them the ethical questions of how to act in the world and how to care for others.
Reviews / Votes
"MacGregor Wise's meander through music and youth culture offers a vision of a free global sweet shop, in which fashionable kids can pick and mix their identities ... .A comparison of the manner in which the music press elevates certain types of 'world music' with British colonial approval of the Indian caste system provides ... originality." (Times Literary Supplement, February 2009)More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Upper-level undergraduates, graduates and faculty in the fields of cultural studies, media studies, globalization, and youth culture.
Dimensions
Height: 21.6 cm
Width: 14.2 cm
Thickness: 1 cm
Weight
228 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-23539-2 (9780631235392)
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
J. Macgregor Wise spent his childhood in South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He is currently Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Arizona State University and is author of a number of books and journal articles, including Exploring Technology and Social Space (1997), co-author (with Jennifer Daryl Slack) of Culture and Technology: A Primer (2005), and co-author (with Lawrence Grossberg, Ellen Wartella, and D. Charles Whitney) of the second edition of MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture (2006).
Content
Preface.
Chapter One: Culture at Home.
Culture.
Territory.
Identity.
Home.
Ideology.
Orientalism.
Notes.
Chapter Two: Culture and the Global.
Non-Local Connections.
Globalization.
Global Flows.
Form and Content, Local and Global.
Local Form/Global Content.
Global Form/Local Content.
Notes.
Chapter Three: Global Youth.
Youth as a Contested Category.
Constructing Youth.
Surveillance and Youth.
Global Youth.
Core and Periphery.
Notes.
Chapter Four: Global Music.
World Music and Cultural Imperialism.
Global Flows of Music.
Forms of Global Music.
Punk.
Hip-Hop.
Notes.
Chapter Five: Territories of Cultural Globalization.
Faye Wong.
Dick Lee.
Panlatinidad.
Audiotopias.
Apache Indian.
Other Asian Audiotopias.
Citizenship.
Desis in America.
Notes.
Conclusion.
References