Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations

by Marc L. Moskowitz

Book Overview

Since the mid-1990s, Taiwan's unique brand of Mandopop (Mandarin Chinese-language pop music) has dictated the musical tastes of the mainland and the rest of Chinese-speaking Asia. Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow explores Mandopop's surprisingly complex cultural implications in Taiwan and the PRC, where it has established new gender roles, created a vocabulary to express individualism, and introduced transnational culture to a country that had closed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824834224
• ISBN13: 9780824834227
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"