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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777407403321

Autore

Kato M. T. <1961->

Titolo

From kung fu to hip hop : globalization, revolution, and popular culture / / M.T. Kato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-7914-8063-1

1-4294-7133-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages) : illustrations

Collana

SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Popular culture

Mass media and culture

Mass media - Social aspects

Kung fu

Hip-hop

Globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : on popular cultural revolution -- Kung fu cultural revolution and Japanese imperialism -- Burning Asia : Bruce Lee's kinetic narrarive of decolonization -- Mutiny in the global village : Bruce Lee meets Jimi Hendrix -- Enter the dragon, power, and subversion in the world of transnational capital -- Game of death and hip hop aesthetics : globalization of popular cultural revolution -- Conclusion : from possibility to actualization of another world.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the revolutionary potential of Bruce Lee and hip hop culture in the context of anti-globalization struggles and transnational capitalism.