1st Edition
Made in Hong Kong Studies in Popular Music
Made in Hong Kong: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first century popular music in Hong Kong. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field, and it covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Hong Kong. Each essay provides adequate context to allow readers to understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book is organized into four thematic sections: Cantopop, History and Legacy; Genres, Format, and Identity; Significant Artists; and Contemporary Cantopop.
Introduction
Mainstreaming Hong Kong Popular Music
ANTHONY FUNG & ALICE CHIK
PART I: CANTOPOP, HISTORY, AND LEGACY
- Mapping sociopolitical and cultural changes through "The Daughters of Hong Kong:" From Anita Mui to Denise Ho
- Once upon a time in Hong Kong Cantopop: 1984
- Pax Musica & Mnets: Cantopop–Kpop convergences and inter-Asia cultural mobilities
- Voices shaped by the people and for the people: Cantopop and political crisis from the colonial to postcolonial era
- The symbolism sound of Cantopop: Relistening to "The Fatal Irony" (1974)
- Rethinking Chineseness in the Cantopop of Sam Hui
- Alternative music, language, and "Hong Kong" identity: The use of metaphor in English lyrics of Hong Kong independent music
- Covers and "One Melody, Two Lyrics" Songs
- Love songs from an island with blurred boundaries: Teresa Teng’s anchoring and wandering in Hong Kong
- Remembering Hong Kong as a queer metaphor: Leslie Cheung’s queer performativity and posthumous networked fandom
- Hong Kong is (no longer) my home: From Sam Hui to My Little Airport
- MC Yan and his Cantonese conscious rap
- Snapshots of multilingualism in Hong Kong popular music
- Our Little Twins Stars: Conglomerate-catalyzed cross-media stardom in the new millennium
- Performing the political: Reflections on Tatming meeting George Orwell in 2017
- The politicization of music through nostalgic mediation: The memory in "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies"
- The globo-regional and the local in Hong Kong popular music
VICKY HO & MIRANDA MA
YIU-WAI CHU
KAI KHIUN LIEW & MEICHENG SUN
STELLA LAU & IVY MAN
PART II: GENRES, FORMAT, AND IDENTITY
TING YIU WONG
BRENDA CHAN
LOK MING ERIC CHEUNG
JOHNSON LEOW
PART III: SIGNIFICANT ARTISTS
CHEN-CHING CHENG
HONG-CHI SHIAU
MILAN ISMANGIL
ANGEL M. Y. LIN
PART IV: CONTEMPORARY CANTOPOP
PHIL BENSON & ALICE CHIK
KLAVIER J. WANG & STEPHANIE NG
YIU FAI CHOW, JEROEN de KLOET & LEONIE SCHMIDT
JESSICA KONG & ANTHONY FUNG
CODA
C. J. W.-L. WEE
Afterword
Cantopop is always hybrid: A conversation with Serina Ha
Biography
Anthony Fung is Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, and Co-Director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also holds an appointment as Professor in the School of Arts and Communication at Beijing Normal University, China.
Alice Chik is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies and a core member of the Faculty of Human Sciences Multilingualism Research Centre at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
"Anthony Fung and Alice Chik have put together a fine collection. Framed by critical cultural studies, it records, celebrates, and intervenes. Engaging and enlightening, the book fills a missing gap ... illustrating how the study of popular music can illuminate social, political, and artistic dynamics, along with existential dilemmas. It makes a compelling case for placing Hong Kong central to the main streams of planetary pop, identifying the impact of significant musical dialogues with mainland China and Taiwan, creative exchanges with Japan, and the contribution of the city’s people and performers to the Korean wave and K-pop."
—Keith Negus, Global Media and China
