From Kung Fu to Hip Hop
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From Kung Fu to Hip Hop

Globalization, Revolution, and Popular Culture

  1. 281 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

From Kung Fu to Hip Hop

Globalization, Revolution, and Popular Culture

About this book

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

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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Information

Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780791469927, 9780791469910
eBook ISBN
9780791480632
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Music
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. From Kung Fu to Hip Hop
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: On Popular Cultural Revolution
  6. 1. Kung Fu Cultural Revolution and Japanese Imperialism
  7. 2. Burning Asia: Bruce Lee’s Kinetic Narrative of Decolonization
  8. 3. Mutiny in the Global Village
  9. 4. Enter the Dragon, Power, and Subversion in the World of Transnational Capital
  10. 5. Game of Death and Hip Hop Aesthetics
  11. Conclusion: From Possibility to Actualization of Another World
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index