China with a Cut

Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music

von Jeroen de Kloet

256 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.|Provides insight into the vibrant popular music scene of contemporary China in the context of globalisation and rapid economic and social change.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften Populäre Kultur
• ISBN: 9789089641625
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.07.2010
• Größe: 232 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis