Yellow Music - Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age

"Jones illuminates Chinese cultural and political history from an unknown angle--that of popular music and an emergent transnational mass culture. In doing so, he not only enriches our understanding of this history but also makes an original contribution."--Prasenjit Duara, author of "Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China"

List of contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Listening to Jazz Age China 1

1. The Orchestration of Chinese Musical Life 21

2. The Gramophone in China 53

3. The Yellow Music of Li Jinhui 73

4. Mass Music and the Politics of Phonographic Realism 105

Glossary 137

Notes 147

Bibliography 183

Index 207

About the author

Andrew F. Jones is Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music.

Summary

Presents the history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and the larger urban media culture with which it was closely associated in early twentieth-century China.

Product details

• Authors: Jones, Andrew F Jones, Andrew F. Jones
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2001
• EAN: 9780822326854
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2685-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 676 g
• Illustrations: 12 b&w illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Jazz, China, Regionalstudien