Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow : Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moskowitz, Marc L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Popular music.
Music > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > New Age.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Pop Vocal.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > International.
Musique > Aspect social > Chine.
Musique populaire > Taiwan > Histoire et critique.
Musique populaire > Chine > Histoire et critique.
Music > Social aspects > China.
Popular music > Taiwan > History and criticism.
Popular music > China > History and criticism.
Taiwan.
China.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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