New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop Audiobook
New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop Audiobook
- Soneela Nankani
- Random House (Audio)
- 2019-09-24
- 6 h 3 min
Summary:
A lively, inside look at how Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and K-Pop are challenging America’s cultural dominance around the world.
There is a vast cultural movement emerging from outside of the , the burkha. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood, McDonald’s, and blue skinny jeans. This is an audiobook about these new arbiters of mass lifestyle due to the East–India’s Bollywood films, Turkish cleaning soap opera, or dizi, and South Korean pop music. Thoroughly about New Kings from the Globe: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop packaging not necessarily secular modernity with traditional beliefs in urbanized configurations, they have created a fresh global pop culture that may be quickly consumed, specifically by the countless millions coming late to today’s world but still negotiating its overpowering challenges.
Acclaimed author Fatima Bhutto profiles Shah Rukh Khan, by many steps typically the most popular movie star in the world; will go behind the moments of Magnificent Hundred years, Turkey’s biggest Television show, watched by up to 200 million people across 43 countries; and moves to South Korea to observe how K-Pop began it all, and how ‘Gangnam Style’ became the 1st YouTube video with one billion views.