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Taipei Times: How pirated records from Taiwan kept Asia rocking

By the mid-1960s, the nation was churning out around 350,000 of them a month, many of which were diffused to Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Thailand and the Philippines

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What John Denver Means to Some Asian Immigrants

John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” had an unlikely resonance across Asia 50 years ago. Today his ode to West Virginia conjures a different type of longing.

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The Song That Sold America to a Generation of Asian Immigrants

The Song That Sold America to a Generation of Asian Immigrants Jason Jeong © History Colorado / The Atlantic A fixture of saccharine Super Bowl commercials and orthodontists’ waiting rooms across the country, John Denver’s platinum record “Take Me Home, Country Roads” turned 50 years old last month. Kitschy, yet earnest; dated, yet eternal. In its terse descriptions of bucolic West Virginia “Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze” the gentle folk tune can conjure nostalgia for a place you’ve never visited and a life you’ve never lived. It’s as classically American as a McDonald’s apple pie; an ode to an uncomplicated vision of the United States.

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