Includes bibliographical references and index.

Musical travels of the Coconut Isles and the socialist popular / Jennifer Lindsay -- Vehicles of progress: the Kerala rikshawala at the intersection of communism and social realism / Nisha Kommattam -- East Asian pop music and an incomplete regional contemporary / C. J. W.-L. Wee -- Searching for youth, the people (Minjung), and "another" West while living through anti-communist Cold War politics: South Korean "folk song" in the 1970s / Hyunjoon Shin -- Cosmopolitanism, vernacular cosmopolitanism, and sound alignments: covers and Cantonese cover songs in 1960s Hong Kong / Hon-Lun Yang -- Sonic imaginaries of Okinawa: Daiku Tetsuhiro's cosmopolitan "paradise" / Marié Abe -- Cosmaharaja: popular songs of socialist cosmopolitanism in Cold War India / Anna Schultz -- Yellow music criticism during China's anti-rightist campaign / Qian Zhang -- Afterword: Asia's soundings of the Cold War / Christine R. Yano.

"The contributors to Sound Alignments explore the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia under the uneven Cold War situation of the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. Geographically, the regions covered stretch from India to Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Okinawa, and Japan. The genres of music explored include various forms of pop, rock, folk, and "yellow music," as well as traditional musics of Asia. Because the Cold War meant radically different things depending on location and time, it is examined from multiple perspectives: socialist internationalism, the nonaligned movement, and the anti-communist developmentalist and capitalist blocs"-- Provided by publisher.

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