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Moskowitz, Marc L.

Cries of joy, songs of sorrow : Chinese pop music and its cultural connotations / Chinese pop music and its cultural connotations Marc L. Moskowitz. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2010. - xii, 165 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p.141-156), discography (p. 139-140), and index.

The tail wags the dog : Taiwan's musical counter-invasion of China -- China's mandopop roots and Taiwan's gendered counter-invasion of the PRC -- Hybridity and its discontents : popular music in Taiwan -- Message in a bottle : lyrical laments and emotional expression in mandopop -- Men writing songs for women who complain about men : mandopop's gender construction in Taiwan and the PRC -- A man for all occasions : charisma and differing masculinity in mandopop -- Mandopop under siege : culturally bound criticisms of Taiwan's pop music.

ISBN: 9780824833695 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0824833694 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780824834227 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0824834224 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2009019774

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
Geschichte 1990-2008

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Popular music--History and criticism.--China
Popular music--History and criticism.--Taiwan
Music--Social aspects--China.

LC Class. No.: ML3502 C5 / M65 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 781.630951