Cantopop was once the leading pop genre of pan-Chinese popular music around the world. In this pioneering study of Cantopop in English, Yiu-Wai Chu shows how the rise of Cantopop is related to the emergence of a Hong Kong identity and consciousness. Chu charts the fortune of this important genre of twentieth-century Chinese music from its humble, lower-class origins in the 1950...
Cantopop was once the leading pop genre of pan-Chinese popular music around the world. In this pioneering study of Cantopop in English, Yiu-Wai Chu shows how the rise of Cantopop is related to the emergence of a Hong Kong identity and consciousness. Chu charts the fortune of this important genre of twentieth-century Chinese music from its humble, lower-class origins in the 1950s to its rise to a multimillion-dollar business in the mid-1990s. As the voice of Hong Kong, Cantopop has given generations of people born in the city a sense of belonging. It was only in the late 1990s, when transformations in the music industry, and more importantly, changes in the geopolitical situation of Hong Kong, that Cantopop showed signs of decline. As such, Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History is not only a brief history of Cantonese pop songs, but also of Hong Kong culture. The book concludes with a chapter on the eclipse of Cantopop by Mandapop (Mandarin popular music), and an analysis of the relevance of Cantopop to Hong Kong people in the age of a dominant China. Drawing extensively from Chinese-language sources, this work is a most informative introduction to Hong Kong popular music studies.
Yiu-Wai Chu is professor and director of the Hong Kong Studies Programme in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong.
目录
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Chapter One
Introduction 1
Chapter Two
Days of Being Marginalized: The 1950s to the Early 1970s 21
Chapter Three
The Rise of Cantopop: The Mid- to Late 1970s 40
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Chapter One
Introduction 1
Chapter Two
Days of Being Marginalized: The 1950s to the Early 1970s 21
Chapter Three
The Rise of Cantopop: The Mid- to Late 1970s 40
Chapter Four
An Age of Glory: The 1980s 69
Chapter Five
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The 1990s 105
Chapter Six
After the Fall: The New Millennium 145
Chapter Seven
Epilogue: Cantopop in the Age of China 184
Appendix
Chronology of Major Events 197
Selected Bibliography 218
Index 226
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Chet Lams cultural Travelogue trilogy- Travelogue1(2003), Travelogue,too(2004), and travelogue,three(2008)- among others, introduced a newfangled idea to Cantopop. (查看原文)
One of the contributions of Lin Xi was that he was able to pioneer philosophical themes into mainstream Cantopop, demanding the audience to have in-depth understanding of the songs. (查看原文)
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导师的书。
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导师的书。