Burma's Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distributors, Censors

Drawing on extensive fieldwork, explores the contemporary pop music scene in this little understood Southeast Asian country.

Burma's Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a country that is little known or understood in the West. Based on years of fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar, Heather MacLachlan's work explores the ways in which aspiring musical artists are forging a place within the highly repressive social and political context that is Burma to...