This article was written by Brian Johnston as a reference of travel places for flights from Jakarta to Moscow via Abu Dhabi. He was told to cut a section in which an innocent young village dance girl was arrested and imprisoned for her alleged communist sympathies. It deals with new sorts of emerging fandom, the construction of Asian and Muslim pop as trans-national categories, and points at the paradoxical and ephemeral nature of the new digital era. The United States refused to grant the Philippines unconditional independence. Popular music has been treated as trivial and banal.
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