‘Karma is STFU!’: Challenging representations of Asian femininity in pop culture through the pop music of Rina Sawayama and Alice Longyu Gao

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‘Karma is STFU!’: Challenging representations of Asian femininity in pop culture through the pop music of Rina Sawayama and Alice Longyu Gao

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University of Otago

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Today, more women of Asian identity are experiencing successful careers in the pop culture industry than ever before. The prominent Anglophone pop culture industries of music and film have been full of barriers that impede the success of women of Asian identity, including pervasive stereotypical representations of Asian identity and femininity in the mass media. The Hollywood film industry in particular has been criticised of stereotypical representations of Asian identity, even into the 2010...

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Masters

Date created

2024-07-15

Creator

Lorimer, Kristina-Maria

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/38814

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Asian women in music / Asian identity / Asian femininity / Asian femininity in music / Asian stereotypes / Representations of Asian identity / Asianness / Asian identity in pop culture / Pop music / Pop culture / Rina Sawayama / Alice Longyu Gao / Orientalism

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