商品簡介
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. It was only in the late 1990s, when transformations in the music industry and changes in the geopolitical situation of Hong Kong, that Cantopop showed signs of decline. This book is not only a brief history of Cantonese pop songs, but also of Hong Kong culture.
作者簡介
Yiu-Wai Chu is professor and director of the Hong Kong Studies Programme in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong.
