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.
Table of 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
- Once upon a time in Hong Kong Cantopop: 1984
- Pax Musica & Mnets: Cantopop–Kpop convergences and inter-Asia cultural mobilities
- Voices shaped by the people and for the people: Cantopop and political crisis from the colonial to postcolonial era
- The symbolism sound of Cantopop: Relistening to "The Fatal Irony" (1974)
- Rethinking Chineseness in the Cantopop of Sam Hui
- Alternative music, language, and "Hong Kong" identity: The use of metaphor in English lyrics of Hong Kong independent music
- Covers and "One Melody, Two Lyrics" Songs
- Love songs from an island with blurred boundaries: Teresa Teng’s anchoring and wandering in Hong Kong
- Remembering Hong Kong as a queer metaphor: Leslie Cheung’s queer performativity and posthumous networked fandom
- Hong Kong is (no longer) my home: From Sam Hui to My Little Airport
- MC Yan and his Cantonese conscious rap
- Snapshots of multilingualism in Hong Kong popular music
- Our Little Twins Stars: Conglomerate-catalyzed cross-media stardom in the new millennium
- Performing the political: Reflections on Tatming meeting George Orwell in 2017
- The politicization of music through nostalgic mediation: The memory in "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies"
- The globo-regional and the local in Hong Kong popular music
VICKY HO & MIRANDA MA
YIU-WAI CHU
KAI KHIUN LIEW & MEICHENG SUN
STELLA LAU & IVY MAN
PART II: GENRES, FORMAT, AND IDENTITY
TING YIU WONG
BRENDA CHAN
LOK MING ERIC CHEUNG
JOHNSON LEOW
PART III: SIGNIFICANT ARTISTS
CHEN-CHING CHENG
HONG-CHI SHIAU
MILAN ISMANGIL
ANGEL M. Y. LIN
PART IV: CONTEMPORARY CANTOPOP
PHIL BENSON & ALICE CHIK
KLAVIER J. WANG & STEPHANIE NG
YIU FAI CHOW, JEROEN de KLOET & LEONIE SCHMIDT
JESSICA KONG & ANTHONY FUNG
CODA
C. J. W.-L. WEE
Afterword
Cantopop is always hybrid: A conversation with Serina Ha
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