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\nPopular culture is an exciting field of study. Through case studies of different popular cultural forms - such as music, dance, film, TV shows, social media, magazines – in Southeast Asia, this module will raise questions about identity, nationalism, agency, hegemony, resistance, and subjectivities. Popular culture is always dynamic. The same cultural products carry different meanings depending on time, place and social context. This is especially relevant in our globalized world of transnational cultural flows. Is it valid to speak of cultural globalization as "Coca-colonization" or "McDonaldization"? For example, would a Hollywood film mean the same thing to all viewers in the US? And would it carry the same meanings that it did in the US for all viewers in the Philippines? Popular cultural forms can be vehicles of resistance to (or, at the least, agency in the context of) dominant ideologies.
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\nAIMS: The primary aim of the module is to help students critically analyze popular culture in contemporary Southeast Asia and engage with theoretical work on the subject.
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\nOBJECTIVES: By the end of the module, students should be able to a) explain the roots and place of popular culture in everyday life in contemporary Southeast Asia; and b) formulate their own critical reading of the complexities of popular culture.
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\nOne two hour lecture a week (Mondays, 1200hrs- 1400hrs at room AS4-0206)
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\nOne two hour tutorial every odd week. Attendance is compulsory
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\nClass participation is all important - especially in tutorials!
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\nLecture: Monday, 12 pm- 2 pm (at room AS4-0206)
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\nTutorial (Odd weeks):
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\nD1 Tutorial Odd Week Wednesday 0800-1000 (AS3-0620)
\nD2 Tutorial Odd Week Friday 0800-1000 (AS3-0620)
\nD3 Tutorial Odd Week Friday 1000-1200 (AS3-0620)
\nD4 Tutorial Odd Week Friday 1200-1400 (AS3-0620)
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\nINTRODUCTION
\nWeek 1 January 12: Introduction/s and Definitions: A History of Popular Culture in Southeast Asia and Singapore
\nWeek 2, January 19: Theories of Popular Culture
\nWeek 3, January 26: Meanings and Interpretations
\nWeek 4, February 2: Meanings and Interpretations
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\nHEGEMONY, AGENCY, RESISTANCE
\nWeek 5, February 9: Popular Culture and Resistance
\nWeek 6, February 16: The Uses and Abuses of Popular Culture
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\nRecess week (Sat, 21 Feb 2015 - Sun, 1 Mar 2015)
\nWeek 7, March 2: Gender and Popular Culture
\nWeek 8, March 9: Gender and Popular Culture
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\nTHE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL
\nWeek 9, March 16: Globalization and Popular Culture
\nWeek 10, March 23: Globalization and Popular Culture
\nWeek 11, March 30: Film (TBA)
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\nCONCLUSION
\nWeek 12, April 6:
\nWeek 13, April 13: Conclusion and group video presentations
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\nTutorial (Odd weeks):
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\nD1 Tutorial Odd Week Wednesday 0800-1000 (AS3-0620)
\nD2 Tutorial Odd Week Friday 0800-1000 (AS3-0620)
\nD3 Tutorial Odd Week Friday 1000-1200 (AS3-0620)
\nD4 Tutorial Odd Week Friday 1200-1400 (AS3-0620)","Order":5},{"ID":"6e5f053b-8835-4692-be49-41f07234cfff","Title":"Syllabus","Description":"INTRODUCTION
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\n\tWeek 1, January 12th lecture: Introduction/s and Definitions- A History of Popular Culture in Southeast Asia
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\n\t Reading: Nissim Otmazgin, “Does Popular Culture Matter to the Southeast Asian region?”: https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=goog&oq=go&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j0j69i60l3.522j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=93&espv=210&q=Does+Popular+Culture+Matter+to+the+Southeast+Asian+region%3F
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\n\t Reading: Holger Warnk, “Faust Does Nusantara” in Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World (ed).
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\n\tWeek 2, January 19th: Theories of Popular Culture
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\n\t Reading: Raymond Williams, “On High and Popular Culture,” The New Republic, November 22, 1974: www.tnr.com/book/review/high-and-popular-culture
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\n\t John Storey, “What is popular culture,” in Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture (Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2001), 1-16: http://www.tezu.ernet.in/dmass/Students%20Corner/Abhijit%20Bora%20Course%20Outline/POPULAR%20CULTURE.pdf
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\n\t Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” in The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944): http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
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\n\tWeek 3, January 26th: Meanings and Interpretations
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\n\t Reading: Clifford Geertz, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight,” Daedalus, 101 (1), Myth, Symbol, and Culture, Winter, 1972: 1-37 (JSTOR)
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\n\t Ward Keeler, “What's Burmese about Burmese Rap? Why Some Expressive Forms Go Global,” American Ethnologist, 36 (1), February 2009: 2-19 (LINC)
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\n\t Vu Hong Thuat, “Amulets and the Marketplace,” Asian Ethnology, 67 (2) Popular Religion and the Sacred Life of Material Goods in Contemporary Vietnam, 2008: 237-255 (JSTOR)
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\n\t Deborah Wong and Mai Elliot. “I Want the Microphone: Mass-Mediation and Agency in Asian American Popular Music,” The Drama Review, 38 (3), Fall 1994): 152-167 (JSTOR)
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\n\tTutorial 1: January 28th and January 30th
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\n\t Reading: Chandra Mukerji and Michael Shudson. “Popular Culture,” Annual Review of Sociology. 12 (1986): 47-66 (JSTOR)
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\n\tWeek 4, February 2nd: Meanings and Interpretations
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\n\t Reading: Brenda Chan and Wang Xueli, “Of prince charming and male chauvinist pigs: Singaporean female viewers and the dream-world of Korean television dramas,” International Journal of Cultural Studies, 14 (3), 2011: 291-305 (LINC)
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\n\t Stuart Hall, “Encoding, Decoding,” in Simon During ed, The Cultural Studies Reader (Routledge, 1993), 507-517: http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/sh-coding.pdf
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\n\t Amporn Jirratikorn, “Pirated Transnational Broadcasting: The Consumption of Thai Soap Operas among Shan Communities in Burma,” Sojourn. 23, 1 (2008): 30-62 (JSTOR)
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\n\t Noboru Toyoshima, “Longing for Japan: The Consumption of Japanese Cultural Products in Thailand,” SOJOURN, 23 (2), 2008: 252-282 (JSTOR)
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\n\tHEGEMONY, AGENCY, RESISTANCE
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\n\tWeek 5, February 9th: Popular Culture and Resistance
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\n\t Reading: Michael Bodden, “Rap in Indonesian Youth Music of the 1990s: ‘Globalization,’ ‘Outlaw Genres,’ and Social Protest,” Asian Music, 36 (2), Summer - Autumn, 2005: 1-26 (JSTOR)
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\n\t Lily Kong, “Music and Cultural Politics: Ideology and Resistance in Singapore”. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 20, 4 (1995): 447-459 (JSTOR)
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\n\t Craig A. Lockard, “Popular Music and Politics in Modern Southeast Asia: A Comparative Analysis”. Asian Music. 27, 2 (Spring-Summer 1996): 149-199 (JSTOR)
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\n\tTutorial 2: February 11th and 13th
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\n\t Reading: Theresa Martinez, “Popular Culture as Oppositional Culture: Rap as Resistance,” Sociological Perspectives. 40, 2(1997): 265-286 (JSTOR)
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\n\tWeek 6, February 16th: The Uses and Abuses of Popular Culture
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\n\t Reading: Todd Joseph Miles Holden and Azrina Husin, “Moral Advertising: Messages of Development and Control in Malaysian TV Commercials,” in Timothy J. Craig and Richard King eds, Global goes local: popular culture in Asia (University of British Columbia Press, 2002), 138-159
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\n\t Abidin Kusno, “Master Q, Kung Fu Heros and the Peranakan Chinese: Asian Pop Cultures in New Order Indonesia,” in Nissim Otmazgin and Eyal Ben-Ari eds, Popular Culture Co-productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia (NUS Press, 2013), 185-206
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\n\t Liew Kai Khiun, “Limited Pidgin-Type Patois? Policy, Language, Technology, Identity and the Experience of Canto-Pop in Singapore,” Popular Music, 22 (2), May 2003: 217-233
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\n\tRecess Week, Sat, 21st Feb 2015 ~ Sun, 1 Mar 2015
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\n\tWeek 7, March 2: Gender and Popular Culture
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\n\t Reading: Pattana Kitiarsa, “The Fall of Thai Rocky,” in Kathleen M. Adams and Kathleen A. Gillogly, Everyday Life in Southeast Asia (Indiana University Press, 2011), 195-205
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\n\t Pattana Kitiarsa, “The Lyrics of Laborious Life: Popular Music and the Reassertion of Migrant Manhood in Northeastern Thailand,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 10 (3), 2009: 381-397
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\n\tTutorial 3: March 4th and March 6th
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\n\t Reading: Pattana Kitiarsa, “Muai Thai cinema and the burdens of Thai men,” South East Asia Research, 2007, 15: 3: 407–424
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\n\tWeek 8, March 9th: Gender and Popular Culture (E-Learning week- Lecture and tutorials will be done online)
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\n\t Reading: Khoo Gaik Cheng, “Representations of the Modern Malay Woman of the 1990s,” in Khoo, Reclaiming Adat: Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature (UBC Press, 2006), 125-157 (Find it in CL (Central Library) or SMC collections)
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\n\t Michelle Lazar, “Entitled to consume: postfeminist femininity and a culture of post-critique,” Discourse and Communication, 3 (4): 371-400: http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/40463_11a.pdf
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\n\t Eng-Beng Lim, “Glocalqueering in New Asia: The Politics of Performing Gay in Singapore,” Theatre Journal, 57 (3) Theorizing Globalization through Theatre, October 2005: 383-405 (JSTOR)
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\n\t Pam Nilan, “Mediating the entrepreneurial self: romance texts and young Indonesian women,” in Todd Joseph Miles Holden and Timothy J. Scrase eds, Medi@sia: global medi/ation in and out of context (Routledge, 2006), 62-81 (EBOOKS)
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\n\t Richard Wilk, “The Local and the Global in the Political Economy of Beauty: From Miss Belize to Miss World,” Reviews of International Political Economy, 2 (1) 1995): 117-134 (JSTOR)
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\n\tTHE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL
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\n\tWeek 9, March 16th: Globalization and Popular Culture
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\n\t Reading: Ho Wai Shung. “Between Globalization and Localization: A Study of Hong Kong Popular Music,” Popular Music., 22 (2), May 2003: 145-157 (E-JOURNAL)
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\n\t Doobo Shim, “Hybridity and the Rise of Korean Popular Culture in Asia,” Media, Culture & Society, 28 (1), 2006: 25-44
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\n\t Eric Thompson, “Rocking East and West: The USA in Malaysian Music,” in T. Craig and R. King eds, Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia, 58-79
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\n\t Rolando B. Tolentino, “Niche Globality: Philippine Media Texts to the World,” in Nissim Otmazgin and Eyal Ben-Ari eds, Popular Culture Co-productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia (NUS Press, 2013), 150-168
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\n\tTutorial 4: March 18th and March 20th
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\n\t Reading: Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy,” Theory, Culture and Society, 7, 1990: http://fido.rockymedia.net/anthro/Appaduraieconomy.pdf
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\n\tWeek 10, March 23rd: Globalization and Popular Culture
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\n\t Reading: Bart Barendregt, “Cyber-nasyid: Transnational soundscapes in Muslim Southeast Asia,” in Todd Joseph Miles Holden and Timothy J. Scrase eds, Medi@sia: global medi/ation in and out of context (Routledge, 2006), 170-187
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\n\t Chua Beng-Huat, “Singaporeans Ingesting McDonald’s,” in Chua Beng-Huat ed, Consumption in Asia: Lifestyles and Identities (Routledge, 2000), 183-201
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\n\t Tania Lewis, “Making over Culture: Lifestyle Television and Contemporary Pedagogies of Selfhood in Singapore,” Communication, Politics and Culture, 44 (1), 21-32
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\n\t Pamela Nilan, “Muslim Media and Youth in Globalizing Southeast Asia,” in Youna Kim ed, Media consumption and everyday life in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2008), 45-58
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\n\tWeek 11, March 30th: Film TBA (To Be Announced)
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\n\tTutorial 5: April 1st and April 3rd (April 3rd is a public holiday Good Friday so there is no tutorial but all groups send me your project proposal)
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\n\t Work on group project (video on popular culture). Each group shall consult with me what they are planning to do.
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\n\tWeek 12, April 6th: No Lecture but you can see me at my office for consultations
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\n\tWeek 13, April 13th: Presentations of Videos in lecture
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\n\t SE2210 Exam :
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\n\tTuesday, 28-Apr-2015 (Morning)
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\n\tFinal Examination