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Author Moskowitz, Marc L.

Title Cries of joy, songs of sorrow : Chinese pop music and its cultural connotations / Marc L. Moskowitz
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2010]
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Description xii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents The tail wags the dog :Taiwan's musical counter-invasion of China -- China's mandopop roots and Taiwan's gendered counter-invasion of the PRC -- Hybridity and its discontents : popular music in Taiwan -- Message in a bottle : lyrical laments and emotional expression in mandopop -- Men writing songs for women who complain about men : mandopop's gender : construction in Taiwan and the PRC -- A man for all occasions : charisma and differing masculinity in mandopop -- Mandopop under siege : culturally bound criticisms of Taiwan's pop music
Summary "Since the mid-1990s, Taiwan's unique brand of Mandopop (Mandarin Chinese - language pop music) has dictated the musical tastes of the mainland and the rest of Chinese-speaking Asia. Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow explores Mandopop's surprisingly complex cultural implications in Taiwan and the PRC, where it has established new gender roles, created a vocabulary to express individualism, and introduced transnational culture to a country that had closed its doors to the world for twenty years. In his early chapters, Marc L. Moskowitz provides the historical background necessary to understand the contemporary Mandopop scene. The section concludes with a look at the manner in which Taiwan's musical ethos has influenced the mainland's music industry and how Mandopop has brought Western music and cultural values to the PRC. This leads to a discussion of Taiwan pop's exceptional hybridity, beginning with foreign influences during the colonial period under the Dutch and Japanese and continuing with the country's political, cultural, and economic alliance with the U.S. Finally, Moskowitz examines the construction of male and female identities in Mandopop and looks at the widespread condemnation of the genre by critics." -- BOOK PUBLISHER WEBSITE
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156), discography (pages 139-140), and index
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Subject Music -- Social aspects -- China.
Popular music -- China -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- Taiwan -- History and criticism.
LC no. 2009019774
ISBN 9780824833695 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780824834227 (paperback: alk. paper)
Other Titles Chinese pop music and its cultural connotations