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Cui Jian

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...Often referred to as “Old Cui” or “the Father of Chinese Rock,” Cui Jian’s career brought him into direct confrontation with the Chinese government. Cui was born in Beijing in 1961 to Korean parents; his father was a trumpet player and his...

Chinese Religions and Popular Music

Ho Vicky

Ho Vicky

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...In this chapter, Note on transliteration: Throughout this chapter, Mandarin pinyin is used for most Chinese words and phrases. However, for song titles or quoted lyrics, either Mandarin or Cantonese pinyin are used, depending...

Songs of the Outcast: Popular Music, Class, and Censorship in the PRC

Hon-Lun Yang

Hon-Lun Yang

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...Popular music is sensitive to what is happening in society. A product of the negotiation of many fields—the political, the social, the cultural, and also the aesthetical—it reflects the society, but at the same time, it has its own...

Nanyin and the Singaporean culture: The creation of intangible cultural heritage in Singapore and intergenerational contrasts

Kaori Fushiki

Kaori Fushiki

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Transglobal Sounds : Music, Youth and Migration

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Introduction Nanyin is a form of musical performing arts recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2009. Besides being performed in the Fujian Province of China, where it was created and developed, today...

Hong Kong

Joanna C. Lee

Joanna C. Lee

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume V : Locations: Asia and Oceania

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 6,787,000 (2002) Hong Kong, a territory made up of three main areas (Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories), was ceded to Britain after two Opium Wars in the middle of the nineteenth...

Tibet

Dagmar Bernstorff

Dagmar Bernstorff

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume V : Locations: Asia and Oceania

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 2,700,000 (2003) Tibet, situated on the high plateaus of the Himalayan mountains at altitudes between 6,500 ft and 16,0 ft (2,000m-5,000m), has been a state since the seventh century. It had its greatest...

Class Divisions and the Overlaps of Taste in New Digital Popular Music Formats in China

Lijuan Qian

Lijuan Qian

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...Introduction Over the last decade, the centralized, state-controlled Chinese media industry has gradually evolved into a highly commercialized system with an international reach. Music talent television shows have become a new setting...

Shanghai

Andreas Steen

Andreas Steen

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Jeroen de Kloet

Jeroen de Kloet

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume V : Locations: Asia and Oceania

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 17,000,000 (2002) Shanghai is China’s most prominent harbor and a city with a booming economy in the early twenty-first century. It is located along the Huangpu River on China’s east coast, midway between...

Beijing

Jin Zhaojun

Jin Zhaojun

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume V : Locations: Asia and Oceania

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 14,560,000 (2003) Beijing is the capital of the People’s Republic of China. It is the country’s political, cultural and economic center, and the center of external communications. Located in northern...

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Rachel Harris

Rachel Harris

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume V : Locations: Asia and Oceania

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 18,462,600 (2000); Uyghur: 8,139,458 (2000) Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, sometimes known in the West as Chinese or Eastern Turkestan, is a region of oasis towns separated by great distances and,...