Made in Hong Kong
Studies in Popular Music
1st Edition
Published on 19. April 2020
234 pages
978-1-000-05608-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Anthony Fung and Alice Chik have put together a fine collection. Framed by critical cultural studies, it records, celebrates, and intervenes. Engaging and enlightening, the book fills a missing gap ... illustrating how the study of popular music can illuminate social, political, and artistic dynamics, along with existential dilemmas. It makes a compelling case for placing Hong Kong central to the main streams of planetary pop, identifying the impact of significant musical dialogues with mainland China and Taiwan, creative exchanges with Japan, and the contribution of the city's people and performers to the Korean wave and K-pop."-Keith Negus, Global Media and China
"Among the growing number of efforts to better document, analyse and account for the place of Hong Kong popular music within its local and trans-local settings, Made in Hong Kong is an extensive collection of well-researched and valuable essays that, taken both together and individually, make a vital contribution to English-language scholarship in HK popular music studies as well as to East Asian Studies more broadly."
-Francois Mouillot, Popular Music
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
2 Halftones, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-000-05608-2 (9781000056082)
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
Introduction
Mainstreaming Hong Kong Popular Music
ANTHONY FUNG & ALICE CHIK
PART I: CANTOPOP, HISTORY, AND LEGACY
Mapping sociopolitical and cultural changes through "The Daughters of Hong Kong:" From Anita Mui to Denise Ho
VICKY HO & MIRANDA MA
Once upon a time in Hong Kong Cantopop: 1984
YIU-WAI CHU
Pax Musica & Mnets: Cantopop-Kpop convergences and inter-Asia cultural mobilities
KAI KHIUN LIEW & MEICHENG SUN
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
The symbolism sound of Cantopop: Relistening to "The Fatal Irony" (1974)
TING YIU WONG
Rethinking Chineseness in the Cantopop of Sam Hui
BRENDA CHAN
Alternative music, language, and "Hong Kong" identity: The use of metaphor in English lyrics of Hong Kong independent music
LOK MING ERIC CHEUNG
Covers and "One Melody, Two Lyrics" Songs
JOHNSON LEOW
PART III: SIGNIFICANT ARTISTS
Love songs from an island with blurred boundaries: Teresa Teng's anchoring and wandering in Hong Kong
CHEN-CHING CHENG
Remembering Hong Kong as a queer metaphor: Leslie Cheung's queer performativity and posthumous networked fandom
HONG-CHI SHIAU
Hong Kong is (no longer) my home: From Sam Hui to My Little Airport
MILAN ISMANGIL
MC Yan and his Cantonese conscious rap
ANGEL M. Y. LIN
PART IV: CONTEMPORARY CANTOPOP
Snapshots of multilingualism in Hong Kong popular music
PHIL BENSON & ALICE CHIK
Our Little Twins Stars: Conglomerate-catalyzed cross-media stardom in the new millennium
KLAVIER J. WANG & STEPHANIE NG
Performing the political: Reflections on Tatming meeting George Orwell in 2017
YIU FAI CHOW, JEROEN de KLOET & LEONIE SCHMIDT
The politicization of music through nostalgic mediation: The memory in "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies"
JESSICA KONG & ANTHONY FUNG
CODA
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
Mainstreaming Hong Kong Popular Music
ANTHONY FUNG & ALICE CHIK
PART I: CANTOPOP, HISTORY, AND LEGACY
Mapping sociopolitical and cultural changes through "The Daughters of Hong Kong:" From Anita Mui to Denise Ho
VICKY HO & MIRANDA MA
Once upon a time in Hong Kong Cantopop: 1984
YIU-WAI CHU
Pax Musica & Mnets: Cantopop-Kpop convergences and inter-Asia cultural mobilities
KAI KHIUN LIEW & MEICHENG SUN
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
The symbolism sound of Cantopop: Relistening to "The Fatal Irony" (1974)
TING YIU WONG
Rethinking Chineseness in the Cantopop of Sam Hui
BRENDA CHAN
Alternative music, language, and "Hong Kong" identity: The use of metaphor in English lyrics of Hong Kong independent music
LOK MING ERIC CHEUNG
Covers and "One Melody, Two Lyrics" Songs
JOHNSON LEOW
PART III: SIGNIFICANT ARTISTS
Love songs from an island with blurred boundaries: Teresa Teng's anchoring and wandering in Hong Kong
CHEN-CHING CHENG
Remembering Hong Kong as a queer metaphor: Leslie Cheung's queer performativity and posthumous networked fandom
HONG-CHI SHIAU
Hong Kong is (no longer) my home: From Sam Hui to My Little Airport
MILAN ISMANGIL
MC Yan and his Cantonese conscious rap
ANGEL M. Y. LIN
PART IV: CONTEMPORARY CANTOPOP
Snapshots of multilingualism in Hong Kong popular music
PHIL BENSON & ALICE CHIK
Our Little Twins Stars: Conglomerate-catalyzed cross-media stardom in the new millennium
KLAVIER J. WANG & STEPHANIE NG
Performing the political: Reflections on Tatming meeting George Orwell in 2017
YIU FAI CHOW, JEROEN de KLOET & LEONIE SCHMIDT
The politicization of music through nostalgic mediation: The memory in "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies"
JESSICA KONG & ANTHONY FUNG
CODA
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
