Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow : Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations /
This work explores Mandopop's surprisingly complex cultural implications in Taiwan and the PRC, where it has established new gender roles, created a vocabulary to express individualism, and introduced transnational culture to a country that had closed its doors to the world for 20 years.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The tail wags the dog : Taiwan's musical counter-invasion of China
- China's mandopop roots and Taiwan's gendered counter-invasion of the PRC
- Hybridity and its discontents : popular music in Taiwan
- Message in a bottle : lyrical laments and emotional expression in mandopop
- Men writing songs for women who complain about men : mandopop's gender construction in Taiwan and the PRC
- A man for all occasions : charisma and differing masculinity in mandopop
- Mandopop under siege : culturally bound criticisms of Taiwan's pop music.