M. T. Kato

From Kung Fu to Hip Hop (eBook, PDF)

Globalization, Revolution, and Popular Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 281
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791480632
• Artikelnr.: 60500741

Autorenporträt

M. T. Kato is an independent scholar and activist living in Hawaii.