Full Description
Sonic Multiplicities is a fascinating book, with essays rich in empirical detail and - captivatingly combining the personal and the theoretical - evocative of the complexities of experience, desire and politics in our perplexingly mobile and entangled world. The book focuses on Hong Kong pop music as part of a translocal, if not global network of flows, providing a starting point for the authors to unsettle received notions of Chineseness, place and identity, of particular importance in a time when we need to come to terms with and resist, the increasingly stifling discourse of 'the rise of China'.
Contents
INTRODUCTION: SONIC MULTIPLICITIES
Chapter 1: ME AND THE DRAGON: A LYRICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE POLITICS OF CHINESENESS
Chapter 2: THE PRODUCTION OF LOCALITY IN GLOBAL POP - A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POP FANS IN THE NETHERLANDS AND HONG KONG
Chapter 3: BLOWING IN THE CHINA WIND: ENGAGEMENTS WITH CHINESENESS IN HONG KONG'S ZHONGGUOFENG MUSIC VIDEOS
Chapter 4: SEX, MORALITY AND CANTOPOP
Chapter 5: BUILDING MEMORIES - A STUDY OF POP VENUES IN HONG KONG
Chapter 6: OLYMPIC CELEBRATIONS AND PERFORMATIVE CONTESTATIONS
Chapter 7: MUSIC, DESIRE AND THE TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS OF CHINESENESS: FOLLOWING DIANA
