Made in Hong Kong - Studies in Popular Music

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.

List of contents

Introduction

Mainstreaming Hong Kong Popular Music
ANTHONY FUNG & ALICE CHIK


PART I: CANTOPOP, HISTORY, AND LEGACY

1. Mapping sociopolitical and cultural changes through "The Daughters of Hong Kong:" From Anita Mui to Denise Ho

VICKY HO & MIRANDA MA



2. Once upon a time in Hong Kong Cantopop: 1984

YIU-WAI CHU
 

3. Pax Musica & Mnets: Cantopop-Kpop convergences and inter-Asia cultural mobilities
KAI KHIUN LIEW & MEICHENG SUN



4. Voices shaped by the people and for the people: Cantopop and political crisis from the colonial to postcolonial era

STELLA LAU & IVY MAN


PART II: GENRES, FORMAT, AND IDENTITY



5. The symbolism sound of Cantopop: Relistening to "The Fatal Irony" (1974)

TING YIU WONG



6. Rethinking Chineseness in the Cantopop of Sam Hui

BRENDA CHAN



7. Alternative music, language, and "Hong Kong" identity: The use of metaphor in English lyrics of Hong Kong independent music

LOK MING ERIC CHEUNG



8. Covers and "One Melody, Two Lyrics" Songs

JOHNSON LEOW


PART III: SIGNIFICANT ARTISTS




9. Love songs from an island with blurred boundaries: Teresa Teng's anchoring and wandering in Hong Kong

CHEN-CHING CHENG


10. Remembering Hong Kong as a queer metaphor: Leslie Cheung's queer performativity and posthumous networked fandom

HONG-CHI SHIAU



11. Hong Kong is (no longer) my home: From Sam Hui to My Little Airport

MILAN ISMANGIL



12. MC Yan and his Cantonese conscious rap

ANGEL M. Y. LIN


PART IV: CONTEMPORARY CANTOPOP



13. Snapshots of multilingualism in Hong Kong popular music

PHIL BENSON & ALICE CHIK



14. Our Little Twins Stars: Conglomerate-catalyzed cross-media stardom in the new millennium

KLAVIER J. WANG & STEPHANIE NG



15. Performing the political: Reflections on Tatming meeting George Orwell in 2017

YIU FAI CHOW, JEROEN de KLOET & LEONIE SCHMIDT



16. The politicization of music through nostalgic mediation: The memory in "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies"

JESSICA KONG & ANTHONY FUNG


CODA



17. The globo-regional and the local in Hong Kong popular music

C. J. W.-L. WEE

Afterword

Cantopop is always hybrid: A conversation with Serina Ha

About the author

Anthony Fung is Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, and Co-Director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also holds an appointment as Professor in the School of Arts and Communication at Beijing Normal University, China.

Alice Chik is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies and a core member of the Faculty of Human Sciences Multilingualism Research Centre at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Summary

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.

Report

"Anthony Fung and Alice Chik have put together a fine collection. Framed by critical cultural studies, it records, celebrates, and intervenes. Engaging and enlightening, the book fills a missing gap ... illustrating how the study of popular music can illuminate social, political, and artistic dynamics, along with existential dilemmas. It makes a compelling case for placing Hong Kong central to the main streams of planetary pop, identifying the impact of significant musical dialogues with mainland China and Taiwan, creative exchanges with Japan, and the contribution of the city's people and performers to the Korean wave and K-pop."
-Keith Negus, Global Media and China

"Among the growing number of efforts to better document, analyse and account for the place of Hong Kong popular music within its local and trans-local settings, Made in Hong Kong is an extensive collection of well-researched and valuable essays that, taken both together and individually, make a vital contribution to English-language scholarship in HK popular music studies as well as to East Asian Studies more broadly."
-François Mouillot, Popular Music

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Chik Fung
• Assisted by: Alice Chik (Editor), Anthony Fung (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780367226985
• ISBN: 978-0-367-22698-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Global Popular Music Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)