Virtual communities and hip-hop music consumers in Singapore: Interplaying global, local and subcultural identities

Leisure Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 283-300

  Mattar, Yasser ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MUSIC;

ASIA; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 0348224652     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02614360310001594168     Document Type: Article

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