Made in Hong Kong

Studies in Popular Music

Edited by Anthony Fung and Alice Chik

April 2020 | Routledge

Introduction

Mainstreaming Hong Kong Popular Music

ANTHONY FUNG & ALICE CHIK

Part I: Cantopop, History, and Legacy

1. Mapping sociopolitical and cultural changes through “The Daughters of Hong Kong:” From Anita Mui to Denise Ho

VICKY HO & MIRANDA MA

2. Once upon a time in Hong Kong Cantopop: 1984

YIU-WAI CHU

3. Pax Musica & Mnets: Cantopop–Kpop convergences and inter-Asia cultural mobilities

KAI KHIUN LIEW & MEICHENG SUN

4. Voices shaped by the people and for the people: Cantopop and political crisis from the colonial to postcolonial era

STELLA LAU & IVY MAN

Part II: Genres, Format, and Identity

5. The symbolism sound of Cantopop: Relistening to “The Fatal Irony” (1974)

TING YIU WONG

6. Rethinking Chineseness in the Cantopop of Sam Hui

BRENDA CHAN

7. Alternative music, language, and “Hong Kong” identity: The use of metaphor in English lyrics of Hong Kong independent music

LOK MING ERIC CHEUNG

8. Covers and “One Melody, Two Lyrics” Songs

JOHNSON LEOW

Part III: Significant Artists

9. Love songs from an island with blurred boundaries: Teresa Teng’s anchoring and wandering in Hong Kong

CHEN-CHING CHENG

10. Remembering Hong Kong as a queer metaphor: Leslie Cheung’s queer performativity and posthumous networked fandom

HONG-CHI SHIAU

11. Hong Kong is (no longer) my home: From Sam Hui to My Little Airport

MILAN ISMANGIL

12. MC Yan and his Cantonese conscious rap

ANGEL M.Y. LIN

Part IV: Contemporary Cantopop

13. Snapshots of multilingualism in Hong Kong popular music

PHIL BENSON & ALICE CHIK

14. Our Little Twins Stars: Conglomerate-catalyzed cross-media stardom in the new millennium

KLAVIER J. WANG & STEPHANIE NG

15. Performing the political: Reflections on Tatming meeting George Orwell in 2017

YIU FAI CHOW, JEROEN de KLOET & LEONIE SCHMIDT

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