Full Description
Made in Taiwan: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Taiwanese popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Taiwanese music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Taiwan and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Taiwan, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Trajectories, Identities, Issues, and Interactions.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Problematizing and Contextualizing Taiwanese Popular Music
Eva Tsai, Tung- hung Ho, and Miaoju Jian
Part I: Trajectories
1 Profi ling a Postwar Trajectory of Taiwanese Popular Music: Nativism in Metamorphosis and Its Alternatives
Tung- hung Ho
2 Producing Mandopop in 1960s Taiwan: When a Prolific Composer Met a Pioneering Entrepreneur
Szu- Wei Chen
3 The Development of the Indigenous "Mountain Music Industry" and "Mountain Songs" (1960- 1970s): Production and Competition
Kuo- chao Huang
Part II: Identities
4 Entangled Identities: Th e Music and Social Signifi cance of Hsu Shih, a Vanguard Composer of Taiyu Ballads
C.S. Stone Shih
5 The Cultural Hybridization of Taiyu Pop Songs: The Case of Taiyu Covers of Japanese Tunes
Yu- yuan Huang
6 Rock and Roll from Rest and Recreation (R&R): The Collective Memory of the Aging Pop- Rock Lovers in Taiwan
Meng Tze Chu
7 Chrysanthemum Fields Forever: The Labor Exchange Band, Taiwanese Folk Rock, and the LP Form
Andrew F. Jones
Part III: Issues
8 How Taiwanese Students Learn: High School Extracurricular Clubs and the Making of Young Rock Musicians
Chi- chung Wang
9 Tacky and World- Class: Hsieh Jin- yen, Taiwan EDM, and the Reinvigoration of Tai
Eva Tsai
10 Muscular Vernaculars: Braggadocio, "Academic Rappers," and Alternative Hip- Hop Masculinity in Taiwan
Hao- li Lin
Part IV: Interactions
11 Indie Music as Cool Ambassadors? Export- Oriented Cultural Policy in Taiwan, 2010- 2017
Yu- peng Lin and Hui- ju Tsai
12 Multidimensionality of Chineseness in Taiwan's Mandopop: Jay Chou's China Wind Pop and the Transnational Audience
Chen- yu Lin
13 "The Eternal Sweetheart for the Nation": A Political Epitaph for Teresa Teng's Music Journey in Taiwan
Chen-ching Cheng
CODA 211
14 How Taiwanese Indie Music Embraces the World: Global Mandopop, East Asian DIY Networks, and the Translocal Entrepreneurial Promoters
Miaoju Jian
AFTERWORD
15 Orbiting and Down- to- Earth: A Conversation with Lim Giong about His Music, Art, and Mind
Miaoju Jian, Tung- hung Ho, and Eva Tsai
A Selected Bibliography on Popular Music in Taiwan
Index
