China's New Voices Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender, and Politics, 1978-1997

Name: China's New Voices Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender, and Politics, 1978-1997
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ISBN: 9780520234505

ISBN-10: 0520234502

ISBN-13: 9780520234505

Edition: 2003

Authors: Nimrod Baranovitch

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This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork,China's New Voicesshows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music, combined with new technologies and the new market economy, have enabled marginalized groups to achieve a new public voice that is often independent of the state. Nimrod Baranovitch analyzes this phenomenon by focusing on three important contexts: ethnicity, gender, and state politics. His study is a fascinating look at the relationship between popular music in China and broad cultural, social, and political changes that are taking place there.…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



China Diversified: An Overview of Popular Music in the Reform Era, 1978-1997



The Negotiation of Minority/Majority Identities and Representation in Popular Music Culture



Negotiating Gender in Post-Revolutionary Popular Music Culture: Reconstructing Manhood, Womanhood, and Sexuality



Popular Music and State Politics: Hegemony, Resistance, Symbiosis, and Unity


Notes


References


Index