China''s New Voices - Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender, and Politics, 1978-1997

Informationen zum Autor Nimrod Baranovitch is Lecturer in Chinese Culture and Society in the Department of East Asian Studies at Haifa University and Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Klappentext A study of popular music in contemporary China that focuses on how popular music has become a staging area for battles over politics and ethnic differences in China. Zusammenfassung A study of the popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, the text shows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music have enabled marginalized groups to achieve a new public voice that is often independent of the state. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. China Diversified: An Overview of Popular Music in the Reform Era! 1978-1997 2. The Negotiation of Minority/Majority Identities and Representation in Popular Music Culture 3. Negotiating Gender in Post-Revolutionary Popular Music Culture: Reconstructing Manhood! Womanhood! and Sexuality 4. Popular Music and State Politics: Hegemony! Resistance! Symbiosis! and Unity Notes References Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nimrod Baranovitch, Baranovitch Nimrod
• Con la collaborazione di: Nimrod Baranovitch (Editore)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.08.2003
• EAN: 9780520234505
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23450-5
• Pagine: 346
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte; Music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, Pop Music, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology