China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789089641625)

In the wake of intense globalisation and commercialisation in the 1990s, China saw the emergence of a vibrant popular culture. Drawing on sixteen years of research, Jeroen de Kloet explores the popular music industry in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, providing a fascinating history of its emergence and extensive audience analysis, while also exploring the effect of censorship on the music scene in China. China with a Cut pays particular attention to the dakou culture: so named after a cut nicked into the edge to render them unsellable, these illegally imported Western CDs still play most of the tracks. They also played a crucial role in the emergence of the new music and youth culture. De Kloet's impressive study demonstrates how the young Chinese cope with the rapid economic and social changes in a period of intense globalisation, and offers a unique insight into the socio-cultural and political transformations of a rising global power.Provides insight into the vibrant popular music scene of contemporary China in the context of globalisation and rapid economic and social change.

Author: Jeroen De Kloet
ISBN-10: 9089641629
ISBN-13: 9789089641625
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2010
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d