In this Book
- From Kung Fu to Hip Hop: Globalization, Revolution, and Popular Culture
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies
summary
From Kung Fu to Hip Hop looks at the revolutionary potential of popular culture in the sociohistorical context of globalization. Author M. T. Kato examines Bruce Lee’s movies, the countercultural aesthetics of Jimi Hendrix, and the autonomy of the hip hop nation to reveal the emerging revolutionary paradigm in popular culture. The analysis is contextualized in a discussion of social movements from the popular struggle against neoimperialism in Asia, to the antiglobalization movements in the Third World, and to the global popular alliances for the reconstruction of an alternative world. Kato presents popular cultural revolution as a mirror image of decolonization struggles in an era of globalization, where progressive artistic expressions are aligned with new modes of subjectivity and collective identity.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780791480632
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
137600914
Pages
281
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No