The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music

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Ya-Hui Cheng is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of South Florida.

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Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres - jazz, rock, and hip hop - in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from modernization to globalization.

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Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Early Western Sounds: from Christian-based Music to the Shanghai Modern Song; 3. Music in Taiwan: Migration, Westernization, Campus Folksongs, and Rock Music; 4. The Collective Sound: From Propaganda Music to Sent-Down Youth Songs; 5. Modernizing Chinese Vernacular Music: From Red Songs to Rock Music in China; 6. Global Image, Chinese Wind, Rap, and Hip-Hop; 7. The Chinese Dream and the Latest Popular Music Scene in Greater China; Bibliography; Index