Studies in Popular Music
Edited by Eva Tsai, Tung-Hung Ho, Miaoju Jian
December 2019 | Routledge
Introduction
Problematizing and Contextualizing Taiwanese Popular Music
EVA TSAI, TUNG-HUNG HO and MIAOJU JIAN
1. Profiling a Postwar Trajectory of Taiwanese Popular Music: Nativism in Metamorphosis and Its Alternatives
TUNG-HUNG HO
2. Producing Mandopop in 1960s Taiwan: When a Prolific Composer Met a Pioneering Entrepreneur
SZU-WEI CHEN
3. The Development of the Indigenous “Mountain Music Industry” and “Mountain Songs” (1960-1970s): Production and Competition
KUO-CHAO HUANG
4. Entangled Identities: The Music and Social Significance of Hsu Shih—A Vanguard Composer of Taiyu Ballads
C.S. STONE SHIH
5. The Cultural Hybridity of Taiyu Pop Songs: The Case of Taiyu Covers of Japanese Tunes
YU-YUAN HUANG
6. Rock and Roll from Rest and Recreation (R&R)—the Collective Memory of the Aging Pop-Rock Lovers in Taiwan
MENG TZE CHU
7. Chrysanthemum Fields Forever: The Labor Exchange Band, Taiwanese Folk-Rock, and the LP Form
ANDREW F. JONES
8. How Taiwanese Students Learn: High School Extracurricular Clubs and the Making of Young Rock Musicians
CHI-CHUNG WANG
9. Tacky and World-Class—Hsieh Jin-yen, Taiwan EDM, and the Reinvigoration of Tai
EVA TSAI
10. Muscular Vernaculars: Braggadocio, “Academic Rappers,” and Alternative Hip-Hop Masculinity in Taiwan
HAO-LI LIN
11. Indie Music as Cool Ambassadors? Export-Oriented Cultural Policy in Taiwan, 2010-2017
YU-PENG LIN and HUI-JU TSAI
12. Multidimensionality of Chineseness in Taiwan’s Mandopop: Jay Chou’s China Wind Pop and the Transnational Audience
CHEN-YU LIN
13. “The Eternal Sweetheart for the Nation”: A Political Epitaph for Teresa Teng’s Music Journey in Taiwan
CHEN-CHING CHENG
14. How Taiwanese Indie Music Embraces the Worlds: Global Mandopop, East Asian DIY Networks, and the Translocal Entrepreneurial Promoters
MIAOJU JIAN
Afterword
15. Orbiting and Down-to-Earth: A Conversation with Lim Giong about His Music, Art, and Mind
MIAOJU JIAN, TUNG-HUNG HO with EVA TSAI