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The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music - Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present (Hardcover)
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The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music - Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present (Hardcover)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres –
jazz, rock, and hip-hop – in Chinese society, covering the social
underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China
and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from
modernization to globalization. The political sensitivities across
the strait have long eclipsed the discussion of these shared sonic
intimacies. It was not until the rise of the digital age, when
entertainment programs from China and Taiwan reached social media
on a global scale, that audiences realized the existence of this
sonic reciprocation. Analyzing Chinese pentatonicism and popular
songs published from 1927 to the present, this book discusses
structural elements in Chinese popular music to show how they
aligned closely with Chinese folk traditions. While the influences
from Western genres are inevitable under the phenomenon of
globalization, Chinese songwriters utilized these Western
inspirations to modernize their musical traditions. It is a
sensitivity for exhibiting cultural identities that enabled popular
music to present a unique Chinese global image while transcending
political discord and unifying mass cultures across the strait.
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