Ya-Hui Cheng

The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music

Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres - jazz, rock, and hip hop - in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from modernization to globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781032314037
• ISBN-10: 1032314036
• Artikelnr.: 67400642

Autorenporträt

Ya-Hui Cheng is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of South Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Early Western Sounds: from Christian-based Music to the Shanghai Modern Song
3. Music in Taiwan: Migration, Westernization, Campus Folksongs, and Rock Music
4. The Collective Sound: From Propaganda Music to Sent-Down Youth Songs
5. Modernizing Chinese Vernacular Music: From Red Songs to Rock Music in China
6. Global Image, Chinese Wind, Rap, and Hip-Hop
7. The Chinese Dream and the Latest Popular Music Scene in Greater China
Bibliography
Index