Made in Hong Kong

Studies in Popular Music
Herausgeber: Fung, Anthony; Chik, Alice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 it covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Hong Kong. Each essay provides adequate context to allow readers to 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780367226978
• ISBN-10: 0367226979
• Artikelnr.: 69938848

Autorenporträt

Anthony Fung is Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, and Co-Director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also holds an appointment as Professor in the School of Arts and Communication at Beijing Normal University, China. Alice Chik is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies and a core member of the Faculty of Human Sciences Multilingualism Research Centre at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Mainstreaming Hong Kong Popular Music
ANTHONY FUNG & ALICE CHIK
PART I: CANTOPOP, HISTORY, AND LEGACY
1. Mapping sociopolitical and cultural changes through "The Daughters of
Hong Kong:" From Anita Mui to Denise Ho
VICKY HO & MIRANDA MA
2. Once upon a time in Hong Kong Cantopop: 1984
YIU-WAI CHU
3. Pax Musica & Mnets: Cantopop-Kpop convergences and inter-Asia
cultural mobilities
KAI KHIUN LIEW & MEICHENG SUN
4. Voices shaped by the people and for the people: Cantopop and
political crisis from the colonial to postcolonial era
STELLA LAU & IVY MAN
PART II: GENRES, FORMAT, AND IDENTITY
5. The symbolism 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 English lyrics of Hong Kong independent music
LOK MING ERIC CHEUNG
8. Covers and "One Melody, Two Lyrics" Songs
JOHNSON LEOW
PART 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
PART IV: CONTEMPORARY CANTOPOP
13. Snapshots of multilingualism in Hong Kong popular music
PHIL BENSON & ALICE CHIK
14. Our Little Twins Stars: Conglomerate-catalyzed cross-media stardom in
the new millennium
KLAVIER J. WANG & STEPHANIE NG
15. Performing the political: Reflections on Tatming meeting George
Orwell in 2017
YIU FAI CHOW, JEROEN de KLOET & LEONIE SCHMIDT
16. The politicization of music through nostalgic mediation: The memory
in "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies"
JESSICA KONG & ANTHONY FUNG
CODA
17. The globo-regional and the local in Hong Kong popular music
C. J. W.-L. WEE
Afterword
Cantopop is always hybrid: A conversation with Serina Ha