Asia and global popular culture: The view from He Yong’s garbage dump

Global goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3-11

  King, Richard ^a   Craig, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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References (9)

1. The first verse quoted is from He Yong, “Lajichang” (Garbage Dump), track 1, from the CD Lajichang (Magic Stone Records, 1994).
2. A photograph of the singer is captioned “Punk Rocker He Yong” in Andrew F. Jones, Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music (Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asian Series, 1992), following p. 90.
3. The Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (London: Warner Brothers, 1977).
4. The Myanmar military junta is quoted in Craig A. Lockard, Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998), 28.
5. The Chinese government campaign is quoted in The Myanmar military junta is quoted in Craig A. Lockard, Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998), 34-9, which also cites similar, earlier, condemnations from the former Soviet Union and East Germany.
6. Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1996), 11.
7. Quoted in Lockard, Dance of Life, 13.
8. Quoted in Lockard, Dance of Life, 14.
9. Chen Xiao-mei, Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China (New York:Oxford University Press, 1995), 4-5.