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Through the lens of popular music in and from Hong Kong, "Sonic
Multiplicities" examines the material, ideological, and
geopolitical implications of music production and consumption. Yiu
Fai Chow and Jeroen de Kloet draw on rich empirical research and
industry experience to trace the worldwide flow of popular culture
and the people who produce and consume it. In doing so, the authors
make a significant contribution to our understanding of the
political and social roles such circulation plays in today's
world--and in a city under cultural threat in a country whose
prominence is on the rise. Just as important, they clear a new path
for the study of popular music.
This rich collection of essays offers a multi- and
inter-disciplinary discussion of "trans-Asia" approaches from
critical theory, historical studies, cultural studies to film
studies. In doing so the authors lay down the groundwork for a more
inclusive knowledge-production and fruitful transnational
collaboration. The authors engage with the implications of
"trans-Asia" using a range of empirical cases. At the heart of the
book is a desire and attempt to give a grounded understanding of
what "trans-Asia" approaches are by examining human mobilities,
media culture flows and connections across Asia and beyond in four
key aspects: cross-border flows and connections; inter-Asian
comparison and referencing; transnational and de-nationalized
approaches; and cross-border collaboration.
Through the lens of popular music in and from Hong Kong, "Sonic
Multiplicities" examines the material, ideological, and
geopolitical implications of music production and consumption. Yiu
Fai Chow and Jeroen de Kloet draw on rich empirical research and
industry experience to trace the worldwide flow of popular culture
and the people who produce and consume it. In doing so, the authors
make a significant contribution to our understanding of the
political and social roles such circulation plays in today's
world--and in a city under cultural threat in a country whose
prominence is on the rise. Just as important, they clear a new path
for the study of popular music.
This rich collection of essays offers a multi- and
inter-disciplinary discussion of "trans-Asia" approaches from
critical theory, historical studies, cultural studies to film
studies. In doing so the authors lay down the groundwork for a more
inclusive knowledge-production and fruitful transnational
collaboration. The authors engage with the implications of
"trans-Asia" using a range of empirical cases. At the heart of the
book is a desire and attempt to give a grounded understanding of
what "trans-Asia" approaches are by examining human mobilities,
media culture flows and connections across Asia and beyond in four
key aspects: cross-border flows and connections; inter-Asian
comparison and referencing; transnational and de-nationalized
approaches; and cross-border collaboration.
This book guides the reader through the many complications and
contradictions that characterize popular contestation today,
focusing on its socio-political, cultural, and aesthetic
dimensions. The volume recognizes that the same media and creative
strategies can be used to pursue very different causes, as the
anti-gay marriage Manif Pour Tous movement in France makes clear.
The contributors are scholars from the humanities and social
sciences, who analyze protests in particular regions, including
Egypt, Iran, Australia, France, Spain, Greece, and Hong Kong, and
transnational protests such as the NSA-leaks and the mobilization
of migrants and refugees. Not only the specificity of these protest
movements is examined, but also their tendency to connect and
influence each other, as well as the central, often ambiguous role
global digital platforms play in this.
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