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Book: Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History

TitleHong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History
Authors
KeywordsPopular music -- China -- Hong Kong -- History and criticism
Songs, Cantonese -- China -- Hong Kong -- History and criticism
Issue Date2017
PublisherHong Kong University Press
Citation
Chu, YWS. Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 2017 How to Cite?
AbstractCantopop 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. © 2017 Hong Kong University Press. All rights reserved.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/241066
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dc.contributor.authorChu, YWS-
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-22T09:22:00Z-
dc.date.available2017-05-22T09:22:00Z-
dc.date.issued2017-
dc.identifier.citationChu, YWS. Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 2017-
dc.identifier.isbn9789888390588-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/241066-
dc.description.abstractCantopop 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. © 2017 Hong Kong University Press. All rights reserved.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherHong Kong University Press-
dc.subjectPopular music -- China -- Hong Kong -- History and criticism-
dc.subjectSongs, Cantonese -- China -- Hong Kong -- History and criticism-
dc.titleHong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History-
dc.typeBook-
dc.identifier.emailChu, YWS: sywchu@hku.hk-
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dc.identifier.hkuros272258-
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dc.publisher.placeHong Kong-

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