What does it mean to play" someone else's music"? Intimate Distance delves into this
question through a focus on Bolivian musicians who tour Japan playing Andean music and …

In recent years, Japanese popular culture has received much attention both inside and
outside the academy. Its success overseas has contributed to theories of transnational …

This article examines the representation of Michael Jackson fans in the UK documentary
Wacko About Jacko (IWC Media, 2005). Although the documentary purportedly gave a mass …

In this thesis I explore the efforts by a group of young Indonesian hardcore punks to
establish an autonomous community based on participatory'Do It Yourself'principles, as they …

Names: Bridges, Rose author. Title: Yoko Kanno's Cowboy bebop soundtrack/Rose Bridges.
Description: New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.| Series: 33 1/3 Japan| Includes …

To find out whether there is a dominance in game releases and reception of Japanese game
developers and publishers on a console by a Japan-based manufacturer, we analysed …

This research explores the role of commodification in participation in celebrity-centric
fandom communities, applying a leisure studies framework to understand the constraints …

Pleasure and its politics have been overemphasised in audience studies for many years. To
delineate a more well-balanced picture of everyday-life consumption practices by fans, this …

The theme of research is the virtual idol Hatsune Miku and her collective construction from
the practices of her fans, who are responsible for most part of the production of related …

This thesis examines the self-fashioning and public images of star divas that perform
Peruvian huayno music. These divas are both multi-authored stories about a person as well …