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Special Issue: Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies : Cultural Studies of Popular Music in Asia

This special issue of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies is a collection of research papers about popular music in Asia. Popular music has featured occasionally and importantly in the journal before, contributing to Inter-Asia Cultural Studies’ aim to promote inter-Asian experiences and prospects. However, this special issue foregrounds the subject. It also marks the first publication of the Inter-Asia popular music studies group (http://interasiapop.org), an offshoot of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society.

This international research group was initiated by several participants of the 2005 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies conference held in Seoul. Since then, the group has organized meetings, conferences and workshops in and outside Asia. The essays of this issue result from two such meetings: a workshop at the Asian Research Institute (ARI) in National University of Singapore from 3-4 March 2007 entitled’ Asian Pop Music in Transition: New Economy, New Subjectivities and Inter-Asian Perspective’; and a workshop at the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden, the Netherlands on 26 November 2008 entitled ‘East Asian Popular Music: Small Sounds from Big Places?’

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Author/Speaker:SHIN Hyunjoon