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Made in Hong Kong : studies in popular music
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"Made in Hong Kong: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music in Hon...
"Made in Hong Kong: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music in Hong Kong. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Hong Kong. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book is organized into four thematic sections: Cantopop, History and Legacy; Genres, Format and Identity; Significant Artists; and Contemporary Cantopop"--
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- Creator
- edited by Anthony Fung and Alice Chik
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York : Routledge, 2020
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (235 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781000056082, 1000056082, 9780429276439, 0429276435, 9781000056044, 100005604X, 0367226987, 0367226979
- OCLC
- on1133661787
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Cantopop, History, and Legacy -- 1. Mapping Sociopolitical and Cultural Changes through "The Daughters of Hong Kong": From Anita Mui to Denise Ho / Miranda Ma -- 2. Once upon a Time in Hong Kong Cantopop: 1984 / Yiu-Wai Chu -- 3. Pax Musica and Mnets: Cantopop-Kpop Convergences and Inter-Asia Cultural Mobilities / Meicheng Sun -- 4. Voices Shaped by the People and for the People: Cantopop and Political Crisis from the Colonial to Postcolonial Era / Ivy Man -- pt. II Genres, Format, and Identity -- 5. The Symbolic Sound of Cantopop: Relistening to "The Fatal Irony" (1974) / Ting Yiu Wong -- 6. Rethinking Chineseness in the Cantopop of Sam Hui / Brenda Chan -- 7. Alternative Music, Language, and "Hong Kong" Identity: The Use of Metaphor in the English Lyrics of Hong Kong Independent Music / $r Lok Ming Eric Cheung -- 8. Covers and "One Melody, Two Lyrics" Songs / Johnson Leow -- pt. III Significant Artists -- 9. Love Songs from an Island with Blurred Boundaries: Teresa Teng's Anchoring and Wandering in Hong Kong / Chen-Ching Cheng -- 10. Remembering Hong Kong as a Queer Metaphor: Leslie Cheung's Queer Performativity and Posthumous Networked Fandom / Hong-Chi Shiau -- 11. Hong Kong is (No Longer) My Home: From Sam Hui to My Little Airport / Milan Ismangil -- 12. MC Yan and his Cantonese Conscious Rap / Angel M. Y. Lin -- pt. IV $t Contemporary Cantopop -- 13. Snapshots of Multilingualism in Hong Kong Popular Music / Alice Chik -- 14. Our Little Twins Stars: Conglomerate-Catalyzed Cross-Media Stardom in the New Millennium / Stephanie Ng -- 15. Performing the Political: Reflections on Tatming Meeting George Orwell in 2017 / Leonie Schmidt -- 16. The Politicization of Music through Nostalgic Mediation: The Memory in "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies" / Anthony Fung -- Coda -- 17. The Globo-Regional and the Local in Hong Kong Popular Music / C. J. W.-L. Wee