04407nam 22006133n 450 991046197550332120200520144314.01-84150-761-X(CKB)2670000000278537(EBL)1107426(OCoLC)823720218(SSID)ssj0000799164(PQKBManifestationID)11427364(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000799164(PQKBWorkID)10763114(PQKB)10845569(MiAaPQ)EBC1107426(Au-PeEL)EBL1107426(CaPaEBR)ebr10623049(CaONFJC)MIL884607(EXLCZ)99267000000027853720121130d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSonic multiplicities[electronic resource] Hong Kong pop and the global circulation of sound and image /Yiu Fai Chow and Jeroen de KloetChicago Intellect20131 online resource (190 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84150-615-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Table; INTRODUCTION: SONIC MULTIPLICITIES; Sonic disappearances; What is going on?; Overview; Chapter 1: ME AND THE DRAGON: A LYRICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE POLITICS OF CHINESENESS; Nationalistic songs; Another approach; Re-nationalization I: Descendants of the dragon; Re-nationalization II: Home and nation; Re-nationalization III: Performing acts (i) - writing against the grain; Re-nationalization IV: Performing acts (ii) - writing with a twist; Shoot the dragonChapter 2: THE PRODUCTION OF LOCALITY IN GLOBAL POP - A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POP FANS IN THE NETHERLANDS AND HONG KONGIntroduction; Globalization: A sense of locality; Fandom: On fans of local stars; Methodology; Production of locality: The linguistic and the heroic; Production of locality: The social, the charitable and the personal; Community; Charity; Character; Conclusion; Chapter 3: BLOWING IN THE CHINA WIND: ENGAGEMENTS WITH CHINESENESS IN HONG KONG'S ZHONGGUOFENG MUSIC VIDEOS; Destabilizing Chineseness; Feminizing Chineseness; Whither China Wind?; Chapter 4: SEX, MORALITY AND CANTOPOPPicture GateThe Edison Chen scandal; The Confucian cum Victorian ethics and the spirit of global capitalism; Spectacle and image; Eye see you as I see you; Coda; Chapter 5: BUILDING MEMORIES - A STUDY OF POP VENUES IN HONG KONG; Fluid sounds; Monumental buildings; Building memories; The Coliseum; Belonging and temporality; Chapter 6: OLYMPIC CELEBRATIONS AND PERFORMATIVE CONTESTATIONS; The constative and the performative; Welcome to Olympic Beijing; Performing Olympic China from Hong Kong; Shanghai also welcomes you!; Criticality and popular cultureChapter 7: MUSIC, DESIRE AND THE TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS OF CHINESENESS: FOLLOWING DIANAFollowing Diana; Diasporic hope: Rewriting migration narrative; Musical hope: Rewriting modernity narrative; Language; Music; Body; Methodological endnote; The flow; The bodily; The political; The personal; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover'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's focus on Hong Kong pop music as part of a translocal, if not global network of flows provides 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 ChPopular musicChinaHong KongPopular musicSocial aspectsElectronic books.Popular musicPopular musicSocial aspects.781.63095125781.630952Chow Yiu Fai997077Kloet Jeroen de881540MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461975503321Sonic multiplicities2286548UNINA