Beyond the reef: cultural constructions of Hawaii in mainland America, Australia and Japan
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The US, Europe, Australia and Japan held a strong fascination for Hawaiian music and culture in the early 1900s. Hollywood musicals, as well as radio programs, reflected, reinforced and commodified the emerging cultural image of Hawaii. A study of the musical culture of Hawaii as seen by three countries that have had contact to it would reveal that, to middle-class America, Hawaii was an island paradise that was innocent yet erotic. To Australia, the islands became an escapist place that reflected blue collar hopes and desires in an 'American' way. Meanwhile, Japan saw Hawaiian music as a new type of American jazz.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 1996
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"This is Germany! It's 1933!" Appropriations and constructions of "fascism" in New York punk/hardcore in the 1980s
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A distinct right-wing youth scene has emerged in Germany, eastern Europe, Russia and the US over recent years. In many cases, right-wing youth movements use the language and vocabularies of fascism and Nazism. Rock music has traditionally been rooted in left-wing views, but has also had a paradoxical relationship with fascism in general and Nazism in particular. In New York City, a number of punk and hardcore bands reinjected political meaning into fascism in the 1980s. More recently, fascism has been seen in heavy metal, especially in extreme sub-manifestations such as grindcore and death metal.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 1996
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The somersaults of monkeys: diffusion of culture and meaning across the Pacific rim
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The growing economic importance of the countries on the Asian side of the Pacific rim has resulted in a diffusion and intermingling of pop culture, and the emergence of a cultural kaleidoscope. Several cultural processes such as domination, imitation, invention, combination, identification, opposition and transculturation have been at work in this intermingling and assimilative process. These processes have popularized American icons and music in Japan and China and oriental martial arts and karaoke in the US.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 1996
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