Bourdaghs / Iovene / Mason Sound Alignments

Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1314-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

The contributors to Sound Alignments explore the myriad forms of popular music in Asia during the Cold War, showing how it took on new meanings and significance as it traveled across the region and forged and challenged alliances, revolutions, and countercultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bourdaghs, Michael K.

Iovene, Paola

Mason, Kaley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Michael Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene, and Kaley Mason 1
Part I. Routes
1. Musical Travels of the Coconut Isles and the Socialist Popular / Jennifer Lindsay 43
2. Vehicles of Progress: The Kerala Rikshawala at the Intersection of Communism and Social Realism / Nisha Kommattam 69
3. East Asian Pop Music and an Incomplete Regional Contemporary / C.J. W.-L. Wee 93
Part II. Covers
4. Searching for Youth, the People (Minjung), and "Another" West While Living Through Anti-Communist Cold War Politics: South Korean "Folk Song" in the 1970s / Hyunjoon Shin 131
5. Cosmopolitanism, Vernacular Cosmopolitanism, and Sound Alignments: Covers and Cantonese Cover Songs in 1960s Hong Kong / Hon-Lun Yang 153
Part III. Fronts
6. Sonic Imaginaries of Okinawa: Daiku Tetsuhiro's Cosmopolitan "Paradise" / Marié Abe 173
7. Cosmaharaja: Popular Songs of Socialist Cosmopolitanism in Cold War India / Anna Schultz 201
8. Yellow Music Criticism during China's Anti-Rightest Campaign / Qian Zhang 231
Afterword: Asia's Soundings of the Cold War / Christine R. Yano 249
Bibliography 263
Contributors 285
Index 289

Über Autor(innen)

Michael K. Bourdaghs is Robert S. Ingersoll Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop.

Paola Iovene is Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China.

Kaley Mason is Assistant Professor of Music at Lewis and Clark College.