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Hong Kong Cantopop : A Concise History /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zhu, Yaowei, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Days of being marginalized : the 1950s to the early 1970s
  • The rise of Cantopop : the mid- to late 1970s
  • An age of glory : the 1980s
  • The best of times, the worst of times : the 1990s
  • After the fall : the new millennium
  • Epilogue : Cantopop in the age of China
  • Appendix. Chronology of major events.