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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822268503321

Autore

Baranovitch Nimrod <1965->

Titolo

China's new voices : popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997 / / Nimrod Baranovitch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

9781417508094

0-520-93653-1

1-59734-531-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/84

Soggetti

Popular music - Social aspects - China

Popular music - Political aspects - China

China Civilization 1976-2002

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-309) and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. China Diversified: An Overview of Popular Music in the Reform Era, 1978 -1997; 2. The Negotiation of Minority/ Majority Identities and Representation in Popular Music Culture; 3. Negotiating Gender in Post-Revolutionary Popular Music Culture: Reconstructing Manhood, Womanhood, and Sexuality; 4. Popular Music and State Politics: Hegemony, Resistance, Symbiosis, and Unity; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 Voices shows that during the 1980's and 1990's, 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.