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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Zhu, Yao Wei (1965-....)
Titre(s) : Hong Kong cantopop [Texte imprimé] : a concise history / Yiu-Wai Chu
Publication : Hong Kong : HKU Press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : ix, 246 pages ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-225) and index
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 twentieth-century Chinese music from
its humble, lower-class origins in the 1950s to its rise to a multimillion-dollar
business in the mid-1990s. As the voice of Hong Kong, Cantopop has given generations
of people born in the city a sense of belonging. It was only in the late 1990s, when
transformations in the music industry, and more importantly, changes in the geopolitical
situation of Hong Kong, that Cantopop showed signs of decline. As such, Hong Kong
Cantopop: A Concise History is not only a brief history of Cantonese pop songs, but
also of Hong Kong culture. The book concludes with a chapter on the eclipse of Cantopop
by Mandapop (Mandarin popular music), and an analysis of the relevance of Cantopop
to Hong Kong people in the age of a dominant China. Drawing extensively from Chinese-language
sources, this work is a most informative introduction to Hong Kong popular music studies
Sujet(s) : Musique populaire -- Hong Kong (Chine) -- 20e siècle
Pop music -- Hong Kong (Chine) -- 20e siècle
Identité collective -- Hong Kong (Chine) -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789888390588. - ISBN 9888390589. - ISBN 9789888390571. - ISBN 9888390570. -
ISBN 9789888390298 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46634394x
Notice n° :
FRBNF46634394
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
