Leicester University Press 1996 first edition paperback 276 pages

Definitive text by Tony Mitchell

Popular Music and Local Identity explores the interaction between the global manifestations of contemporary pop, rock and rap music and local music scenes in the Czech Republic, Italy, Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. It also examines indigenous popular music in these countries and elsewhere in relation to the World Music phenomenon and the importation and appropriation of US and British musical idioms related to pop, rock, dance and hip hop culture. The largely Anglo-American musical forms ... are often portrayed ... as examples of cultural imperialism that displace and appropriate authentic representations of local and indigenous music into commodities for an homogenized global market. This book sets out to re-examine and challenge this cultural imperialism thesis as an overly simplistic way of representing the often complex cultural and political issues involved in local versions of imported music cultures.

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