Sonic Multiplicities

Hong Kong Pop and the Global Circulation of Sound and Image

By (author) Yiu Fai Chow, Jeroen de Kloet

Publication date:

15 December 2012

Publisher

Intellect Books

Dimensions:

229x178mm
7x9"

ISBN-13: 9781841506159

Sonic Multiplicities is a fascinating book, with essays rich in empirical detail and – captivatingly combining the personal and the theoretical – evocative of the complexities of experience, desire and politics in our perplexingly mobile and entangled world. The book focuses on Hong Kong pop music as part of a translocal, if not global network of flows, providing a starting point for the authors to unsettle received notions of Chineseness, place and identity, of particular importance in a time when we need to come to terms with and resist, the increasingly stifling discourse of 'the rise of China'.

INTRODUCTION: SONIC MULTIPLICITIES

Chapter 1: ME AND THE DRAGON: A LYRICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE POLITICS OF CHINESENESS

Chapter 2: THE PRODUCTION OF LOCALITY IN GLOBAL POP – A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POP FANS IN THE NETHERLANDS AND HONG KONG

Chapter 3: BLOWING IN THE CHINA WIND: ENGAGEMENTS WITH CHINESENESS IN HONG KONG’S ZHONGGUOFENG MUSIC VIDEOS

Chapter 4: SEX, MORALITY AND CANTOPOP

Chapter 5: BUILDING MEMORIES – A STUDY OF POP VENUES IN HONG KONG

Chapter 6: OLYMPIC CELEBRATIONS AND PERFORMATIVE CONTESTATIONS

Chapter 7: MUSIC, DESIRE AND THE TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS OF CHINESENESS: FOLLOWING DIANA

'An intriguing study of pop culture'