Full Description
Made in Hong Kong: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first century popular music in Hong Kong. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field, and it covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Hong Kong. Each essay provides adequate context to allow readers to understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book is organized into four thematic sections: Cantopop, History and Legacy; Genres, Format, and Identity; Significant Artists; and Contemporary Cantopop.
Contents
Introduction
Mainstreaming Hong Kong Popular Music
ANTHONY FUNG & ALICE CHIK
PART I: CANTOPOP, HISTORY, AND LEGACY
Mapping sociopolitical and cultural changes through "The Daughters of Hong Kong:" From Anita Mui to Denise Ho
VICKY HO & MIRANDA MA
Once upon a time in Hong Kong Cantopop: 1984
YIU-WAI CHU
Pax Musica & Mnets: Cantopop-Kpop convergences and inter-Asia cultural mobilities
KAI KHIUN LIEW & MEICHENG SUN
Voices shaped by the people and for the people: Cantopop and political crisis from the colonial to postcolonial era
STELLA LAU & IVY MAN
PART II: GENRES, FORMAT, AND IDENTITY
The symbolism sound of Cantopop: Relistening to "The Fatal Irony" (1974)
TING YIU WONG
Rethinking Chineseness in the Cantopop of Sam Hui
BRENDA CHAN
Alternative music, language, and "Hong Kong" identity: The use of metaphor in English lyrics of Hong Kong independent music
LOK MING ERIC CHEUNG
Covers and "One Melody, Two Lyrics" Songs
JOHNSON LEOW
PART III: SIGNIFICANT ARTISTS
Love songs from an island with blurred boundaries: Teresa Teng's anchoring and wandering in Hong Kong
CHEN-CHING CHENG
Remembering Hong Kong as a queer metaphor: Leslie Cheung's queer performativity and posthumous networked fandom
HONG-CHI SHIAU
Hong Kong is (no longer) my home: From Sam Hui to My Little Airport
MILAN ISMANGIL
MC Yan and his Cantonese conscious rap
ANGEL M. Y. LIN
PART IV: CONTEMPORARY CANTOPOP
Snapshots of multilingualism in Hong Kong popular music
PHIL BENSON & ALICE CHIK
Our Little Twins Stars: Conglomerate-catalyzed cross-media stardom in the new millennium
KLAVIER J. WANG & STEPHANIE NG
Performing the political: Reflections on Tatming meeting George Orwell in 2017
YIU FAI CHOW, JEROEN de KLOET & LEONIE SCHMIDT
The politicization of music through nostalgic mediation: The memory in "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies"
JESSICA KONG & ANTHONY FUNG
CODA
The globo-regional and the local in Hong Kong popular music
C. J. W.-L. WEE
Afterword
Cantopop is always hybrid: A conversation with Serina Ha
