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China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music

By Jeroen de Kloet

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9089641629, 9789089641625
Open Library ID
OL24497249M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8791377 bytes)
Pages
257\257
Topic
Art Music: Guitar
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

During the 1990s illegally imported compact discs, known as dakou CDs, flooded into China, opening up the music world to Chinese youth and inspiring them to experiment with new sounds and new lifestyles. Quickly, dakou became the label for a new generation of Chinese, a vibrant generation no longer tied to the Maoist past. Based on fifteen years of fieldwork in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, China with a Cut surveys the music that emerged in 1990s China and makes a case for its involvement in the rise of China as a cultural and economic global power.

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