Circuit Listening Chinese Popular Music In The Global 1960s Andrew F Jones by Andrew F. Jones 9781517902063, 9781517902070, 9782019033217, 2019033216, 1517902061, 151790207X instant download after payment.

What did Mao’s China have to do with the music of youth revolt in the 1960s? & how did the mambo, the Beatles, & Bob Dylan sound on the front lines of the Cold War in Asia? Andrew F. Jones listens in on the 1960s beyond the West, & suggests how transistor technology, decolonization, & the Green Revolution transformed the sound of music around the globe.

Focusing on the intro of the transistor in revolutionary China & its Cold War counterpart in Taiwan, CL reveals the hidden parallels between music as seemingly disparate as rock & roll & Maoist anthems. It offers groundbreaking studies of Mandarin diva Grace Chang & the Taiwanese folk troubadour Chen Da, examines how revolutionary aphorisms from the Little Red Book parallel the Beatles’ “Revolution,” uncovers how U.S. military installations came to serve as a conduit for the dissemination of Anglophone pop music into East Asia, & shows how consumer electronics helped the pop idol Teresa Teng bring the Maoist era to a close, remaking the contemporary Chinese soundscape forever. CL provides a multifaceted history of Chinese-language popular music & media at midcentury. It profiles a number of the most famous & best loved Chinese singers & cinematic icons, & places those figures in a larger geopolitical & technological context. CL’s original research & far-reaching ideas make for an unprecedented look at the role Chinese music played in the ’60s pop musical revolution. 

Challenges our understanding of popular music as a Euro-American hegemony by demonstrating how the Sinophone music industries & markets partook of this global circuit through corporate expansion, as well as through local resistance & piracy. It is a long-awaited book on the way global popular music, in all its diversity, circularity, & promiscuity, should be re-historicized & reconceptualized – Victor Fan, author of Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory