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Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
Andrew F. Jones
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Description for Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
Paperback. Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and the larger urban media culture with which it was closely associated in early twentieth-century China. This book revises understandings of race, politics, popular culture, and technology in the making of modern Chinese culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AVGJ; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow” or “pornographic" music—as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American jazz, Hollywood film music, and Chinese folk forms—and the anticolonial mass music that challenged its commercial and ideological dominance. Jones radically revises previous understandings of race, politics, popular culture, and technology in the making of modern Chinese culture.
The personal and professional histories of three musicians are central to Jones's discussions of shifting gender roles, class inequality, the politics ... Read more
Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow” or “pornographic" music—as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American jazz, Hollywood film music, and Chinese folk forms—and the anticolonial mass music that challenged its commercial and ideological dominance. Jones radically revises previous understandings of race, politics, popular culture, and technology in the making of modern Chinese culture.
The personal and professional histories of three musicians are central to Jones's discussions of shifting gender roles, class inequality, the politics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822326946
SKU
V9780822326946
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About Andrew F. Jones
Andrew F. Jones is Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music.
Reviews for Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
“Yellow Music pushes commonsense presumptions forward by complicating theory with solid empirical study. Jones weaves rich information and intriguing conclusions throughout this historically grounded book.”—Miriam Silverberg, author of Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu “Yellow Music is a fantastic, one-of-a-kind read: a beautifully written, theoretically rich, and empirically grounded story about the relationship between American jazz music and ... Read more