New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop Audiobook (Free)

A lively, inside take a 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 beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest problem however to Hollywood, McDonald’s, and blue jeans. That is an audiobook about these fresh arbiters of mass lifestyle arising from the East–India’s Bollywood films, Turkish cleaning soap opera, or dizi, and South Korean pop music. Cautiously about New Kings from the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop product packaging not necessarily secular modernity with traditional ideals in urbanized settings, they have developed a new global pop culture that may be very easily consumed, especially by the many millions coming late to today’s world and still negotiating its overwhelming challenges.

Acclaimed author Fatima Bhutto profiles Shah Rukh Khan, by many actions the most popular movie star in the world; goes behind the scenes of Magnificent Hundred years, Turkey’s biggest Television show, viewed by upwards of 200 million people across 43 countries; and travels to South Korea to see how K-Pop began it all, and how ‘Gangnam Style’ became the initial YouTube video with one billion views.