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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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