During the 1990s illegally imported compact discs, known as dakou CDs, flooded into China, opening up the music world to Chinese youth and inspiring them to experiment with new sounds and new lifestyles. Quickly, dakou became the label for a new generation of Chinese, a vibrant generation no longer tied to the Maoist past. Based on fifteen years of fieldwork in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, China with a Cut surveys the music that emerged in 1990s China and makes a case for its involvement in the rise of China as a cultural and economic global power.
Author(s): Jeroen de Kloet
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 257
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Note on Romanisation and Publication History......Page 14
Introduction: Global Longings with a Cut......Page 16
1. Hard Scenes......Page 38
2. Hyphenated Scenes......Page 76
3. Subaltern Sounds......Page 104
4. Musical Taste and Technologies of the Self......Page 140
5. Producing, Localising and Silencing Sounds......Page 168
Conclusion: Paradoxical Performances......Page 194
Notes......Page 204
Chinese Glossary......Page 218
Appendix I Interviews......Page 224
Appendix II Factor Analysis of Singers......Page 230
Appendix III Popularity of Singers and Bands......Page 231
Bibliography......Page 232
Index......Page 245
