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From Shahrukh Khan to Shakira: Reflections on Aesthetico-cultural Cosmopolitanism Among Young French People

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The globalisation of cultural industries and the growing circulation of products facilitated by digital technologies are major explanations of an unprecedented internationalisation of youth culture. This phenomenon merits our attention regarding its effects on acceptance of foreign tastes. How to grasp the cultural mutations engendered by the consumption of cultural products which mix or even employ foreign cultural codes? What are the references, the new criteria of appreciation which are engaged, and how do they construct a new aesthetic, even a renewed cultural capital? Does this permanent contact with the cultural products of transnational circulation modify the link with alterity, real or imagined?

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    Le Monde.fr, 03.06.2014.

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    Shojos: mangas for girls; Shonen: mangas for boys; Seinens: mangas for young men; Joseis: mangas for young women. See Detrez and Vanhée (2012).

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    The author speaks of a process of “de-hyphenation” in the case of Turkish communities.

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  1. GEMASS, University of Paris Sorbonne/CNRS, Paris, France

    Vincenzo Cicchelli

  2. Département des Études de la Prospective et des Statistiques, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris, France

    Sylvie Octobre

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Cicchelli, V., Octobre, S. (2018). From Shahrukh Khan to Shakira: Reflections on Aesthetico-cultural Cosmopolitanism Among Young French People. In: Giri, A. (eds) Beyond Cosmopolitanism. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5376-4_19

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