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

China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music
China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music, During the 1990s illegally imported compact discs, known as <i>dakou</i> 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 ge, China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music has a rating of 4 stars
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China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music, 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 ge, China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music
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  • China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music
  • Written by author Jeroen de Kloet
  • Published by Amsterdam University Press, July 2010
  • 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 ge
  • 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 ge
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List of Figures and Tables 7

Acknowledgements 9

Note on Romanisation and Publication History 13

Introduction: Global Longings with a Cut 15

Cosmopolitan Poses and Haunting Questions 15

From Liumang to Dakou and Balinghou 17

The Geography of Chinese Rock 25

This Book 33

1 Hard Scenes 37

A Scenic Move 37

Underground 43

Heavy Metal 54

Hardcore Punk 60

Hip-hop 68

Interim 74

2 Hyphenated Scenes 75

Multiplicity 75

Folk-rock 75

Pop-rock 84

Pop-punk 88

Fashionable Bands 94

Ending a Scenic Journey 100

3 Subaltern Sounds 103

Marginal Voices 103

Gendering Music 104

Southern Vices 119

Seductive Sounds 129

Femininity, Locality and Opacity 138

4 Musical Taste and Technologies of the Self 139

Music and Society 139

Youth in Fin-de-siecle Beijing 142

Music Preferences and Involvement 148

The Gendered Self 152

Generational Differences 154

Place and Belonging 156

Building Subjectivity 158

The Political Self 161

Technology and Control 163

5 Producing, Localising and Silencing Sounds 167

Seductive Narratives 167

Market Fantasies 169

Cultural Be/Longings 175

Silencing Sounds 180

Commercial Complexities 190

Conclusion: Paradoxical Performances 193

Mirrors 193

Deparadoxicalisation 195

Sonic Hierarchies 198

Binary Socialism 199

Notes 203

Chinese Glossary 217

Appendix I Interviews 223

Appendix II Factor Analysis of Singers 229

Appendix III Popularity of Singers and Bands 230

Bibliography 231

Index 244


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