Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History

by Yiu-Wai Chu

Book Overview

Cantopop was once the leading pop genre of pan-Chinese popular music around the world. In this pioneering study of Cantopop in English, Yiu-Wai Chu shows how the rise of Cantopop is related to the emergence of a Hong Kong identity and consciousness. Chu charts the fortune of this important genre of twentieth-century Chinese music from its humble, lower-class origins in the 1950s to its rise to a multimillion-dollar business in the mid-1990s. As the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888390589
• ISBN13: 9789888390588
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher