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My colleagues and I are working on a book project dealing with
subcultures in Asia, particularly those relating to nightlife and
clubbing (see below). We would like to hear from those who are working
on relevant projects, and would be interested in participating in our
book. Please feel free to forward this message to anybody you think
might be interested. Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Andrew Field
Lecturer in School of History
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW Australia 2052
+61-2-9385-2287
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Call for Chapters "Asian Clubcultures"
A Book Proposal
This book will be the first collected volume focusing on Asian
clubcultures. It will serve to define a promising new field of
research on night life in Asia that addresses issues of youth
subcultures, globalization/localization, urbanism and economic change.
Combining work by scholars from multiple disciplines, this book aims to
provide a broad overview of contemporary nightlife in Asian cites from
Bombay to Tokyo focusing on regional flows and influences. Following a
surge of interest in youth dance and leisure cultures in the West, a
few scattered monographs and articles on nightlife in Asian cities
recently have appeared. However no work has brought together scholars
working in various disciplines and locales within Asia to address the
question of how clubs, discos, bars and other nightlife establishments
have developed in different and yet connected ways in Asia. A guiding
hunch in organizing this volume is that despite the vast diversity of
nightlife practices within Asia, there are distinct regional
subcultures that have emerged out of a historic regional flows of
music, talent, capital, and ideas between Asian centers. We will
include historical essays that discuss the development of nightlife in
Asian cities, focusing on the regional cross-national exchanges that
are responsible for creating distinctly Asian night life subcultures.
Empirical focus: clubs, discotheques, bars, karaoke, dance halls, and
other nightlife spaces.
Disciplinary Areas: social scientists from all disciplines including
history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and related
disciplines.
Geographic Areas: all of Asia, with a probable focus on East and
Southeast Asia.
Chapters: We are looking for original case studies of roughly 10,000
words that present original ethnographic and/or historical material and
address issues in contemporary social and cultural theory.
Target Audience: researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate
students in social sciences and Asian studies, as well as educated
general readers interested in Asian nightlife.
Publisher: We are looking for commitments from several authors before
submitting a formal proposal, but we have already received positive
encouragement from one major university publisher.
If you are interested in participating please contact:
James Farrer, Sophia University Tokyo, [log in to unmask]
Andrew Field, University of New South Wales, [log in to unmask]
Matthew Chew, Hong Kong Technical University,
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