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New kings of the world : dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop / Fatima Bhutto.

Title:

New kings of the world :

Author:

Bhutto, Fatima, 1982-

Format:

Books

Physical Description:

1 volume : maps ; 20 cm

ISBN:

9781733623704

Production / Publication Information:

New York : Columbia Global Reports, [2019]

Summary:

"There is a vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood, McDonald's, and blue jeans. This is a book about these new arbiters of mass culture arising from the East-India's Bollywood films, Turkish soap opera, or dizi, and South Korean pop music. Carefully packaging not always secular modernity with traditional values in urbanized settings, they have created a new global pop culture that can be easily consumed, especially by the many millions coming late to the modern world and still negotiating its overwhelming challenges. Author Fatima Bhutto profiles Shah Rukh Khan, by many measures the most popular movie star in the world; goes behind the scenes of Magnificent Century, Turkey's biggest TV show, watched by upwards of 200 million people across 43 countries; and travels to South Korea to see how K-Pop started it all, and how "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube video with one billion views"--

Bibliography note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Language:

English

Geographic Term:

Asia -- Civilization -- 21st century.

United States -- Civilization -- 1945-

United States -- Relations -- Asia.

Asia -- Relations -- United States.

Subject Term:

Popular culture -- Asia.

Culture and globalization -- Asia.

Mass media and culture -- Asia.

East and West.

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An important dispatch from a new, multipolar order that is taking form before our eyes

A vast cultural movement is emerging from outside the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood, McDonald's, blue jeans, and other aspects of American mass-produced popular culture. This is a book about the new arbiters of mass culture--India's Bollywood films, Turkey's soap operas, or dizi , and South Korea's pop music. Carefully packaging not always secular modernity, combined with traditional values, in urbanized settings, they have created a new global pop culture that strikes a deeper chord than the American version, especially with the many millions who are only just arriving in the modern world and still negotiating its overwhelming changes.

Fatima Bhutto, an indefatigable reporter and vivid writer, profiles Shah Rukh Khan, by many measures the most popular star in the world; goes behind the scenes of Magnificent Century , Turkey's biggest dizi , watched by more than 200 million people across 43 countries; and travels to South Korea to see how K-Pop started. Bhutto's book is an important dispatch from a new, multipolar order that is taking form before our eyes.

"Bhutto's razor sharp, intriguing introduction to the various pop phenomena emerging from Asia." --Tash Aw, Financial Times

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

A probing look at some of the shifting tides of global culture.Having borne witness to the throes of political upheaval in her birth country of Pakistan, journalist and novelist Bhutto (The Runaways, 2018, etc.) here explores the local roots and global impact of three contemporary pop-culture game-changers: Bollywood (India), dizi (Turkey), and K-pop (South Korea). Many American readers may be surprised to learn that what's entertaining much of the rest of the world no longer hails from Hollywood or New York but rather India, Turkey, and South Korea. In this engaging study, the author convincingly asserts that American dominance of popular culture was "facilitated by massive migration to urban areas, the rise of the middle class across the Global South, and increased connectivity"not to mention "American military might." Though American pop culture may have resonated with "a Third World elite," Bhutto argues that "villagers uprooted from their homes and cultures and living in the crowded outskirts of big cities took no comfort in Sex and the City or the twangy music of Britney Spears. Instead, they turned to the products of Indian, Turkish, and Korean pop culture, whose more conservative values better aligned with "this majority's self-image and aspirations." Such vast, rapid urbanization, writes the author, marks a "journey from tradition to modernityaccompanied by profound turbulence" and resulting in "a geography without anchors, full of sexual and material deprivations, injustices, and inequalities." In the wake of such global sea changes, Bhutto investigates where millions today find their cultural moorings and why. Though focusing extensively on Bollywood's politically rooted narrative transformations and the meteoric rise of its biggest star, Shah Rukh Khan, the author also traces and analyzes the appeal of dizisweeping, two-plus-hour soap opera-like TV epics often adapted from Turkish literary classicsand concludes with a fascinating look at K-pop's highly stylized production and enormous Western influence.Witty and packed with detail, this is an intercultural shot that should be heard around the world. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.