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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Moskowitz, Marc L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2010.
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.