Allen Chun is Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.Ned Rossiter is Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.Brian Shoesmith is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at Edith Cowan University, Australia and Head of the Centre for Asian Communication, Media and Cultural Studies.

• Part 1: Musical Cultures and Culture IndustriesPart 2: Local Appropriations: From Nation-Building to Happy Pop and Folk Resistance Part 3: Travelling Theories, Syncretic Exoticisms or Diffusion by Any Other Name? Part 4: Colonial Desire, Social Memory and Popular Sensuality as Performance Genres

Allen Chun is Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.Ned Rossiter is Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.Brian Shoesmith is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at Edith Cowan University, Australia and Head of the Centre for Asian Communication, Media and Cultural Studies.

• Part 1: Musical Cultures and Culture IndustriesPart 2: Local Appropriations: From Nation-Building to Happy Pop and Folk Resistance Part 3: Travelling Theories, Syncretic Exoticisms or Diffusion by Any Other Name? Part 4: Colonial Desire, Social Memory and Popular Sensuality as Performance Genres

Allen Chun is Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.Ned Rossiter is Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.Brian Shoesmith is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at Edith Cowan University, Australia and Head of the Centre for Asian Communication, Media and Cultural Studies.

• Part 1: Musical Cultures and Culture IndustriesPart 2: Local Appropriations: From Nation-Building to Happy Pop and Folk Resistance Part 3: Travelling Theories, Syncretic Exoticisms or Diffusion by Any Other Name? Part 4: Colonial Desire, Social Memory and Popular Sensuality as Performance Genres