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Burma's Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distributors, Censors (Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology)
Heather Maclachlan
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Description for Burma's Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distributors, Censors (Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology)
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Drawing on extensive fieldwork, explores the contemporary pop music scene in this little understood Southeast Asian country. Burma's Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a country that is little known or understood in the West. Based on years of fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar, Heather MacLachlan's work explores the ways in which aspiring musical artists are forging a place within the highly repressive social and political context that is Burma today. It deals sensitively with issues such as negotiating local and global styles,performance contexts and practices, and, more importantly, with ethical issues ... Read more
Drawing on extensive fieldwork, explores the contemporary pop music scene in this little understood Southeast Asian country. Burma's Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a country that is little known or understood in the West. Based on years of fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar, Heather MacLachlan's work explores the ways in which aspiring musical artists are forging a place within the highly repressive social and political context that is Burma today. It deals sensitively with issues such as negotiating local and global styles,performance contexts and practices, and, more importantly, with ethical issues ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781580464710
SKU
V9781580464710
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Reviews for Burma's Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distributors, Censors (Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology)
A major contribution on a number of fronts. . . drawing on thorough ethnographic work. . . Should figure in the research and teaching of popular music and culture in Asia.
JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
Burma's Pop Music Industry is significant. . . MacLachlan's analysis is perfectly situated.
JOURNAL OF POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES
JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
Burma's Pop Music Industry is significant. . . MacLachlan's analysis is perfectly situated.
JOURNAL OF POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES