China with a Cut : : Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music / / Jeroen Kloet.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kloet, Jeroen,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: IIAS Publications ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Acknowledgements --; Note on Romanisation and Publication History --; Introduction: Global Longings with a Cut --; 1 Hard Scenes --; 2 Hyphenated Scenes --; 3 Subaltern Sounds --; 4 Musical Taste and Technologies of the Self --; 5 Producing, Localising and Silencing Sounds --; Conclusion: Paradoxical Performances --; Notes --; Chinese Glossary --; Appendix I Interviews --; Appendix II Factor Analysis of Singers --; Appendix III Popularity of Singers and Bands --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048511143; 9783110700671; 9783111023786; 9783110662788
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048511143?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jeroen Kloet.

In the wake of intense globalisation and commercialisation in the 1990s, China saw the emergence of a vibrant popular culture. Drawing on sixteen years of research, Jeroen de Kloet explores the popular music industry in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, providing a fascinating history of its emergence and extensive audience analysis, while also exploring the effect of censorship on the music scene in China.China with a Cut pays particular attention to the dakou culture: so named after a cut nicked into the edge to render them unsellable, these illegally imported Western CDs still play most of the tracks. They also played a crucial role in the emergence of the new music and youth culture. De Kloet’s impressive study demonstrates how the young Chinese cope with the rapid economic and social changes in a period of intense globalisation, and offers a unique insight into the socio-cultural and political transformations of a rising global power.