Made in Taiwan: Studies in Popular Music

by Eva Tsai (Editor), Tung-Hung Ho (Editor), Miaoju Jian (Editor)

Overview

Made in Taiwan: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Taiwanese popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Taiwanese music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Taiwan and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Taiwan, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Trajectories, Identities, Issues, and Interactions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815360179
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/02/2019
Series:	Routledge Global Popular Music Series
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eva Tsai is Associate Professor of Mass Communication at National Taiwan Normal University. She is committed to media and cultural studies in inter-Asian, translocal contexts and has published primarily in this area. She is also an independent podcast producer.

Tung-hung Ho is Associate Professor of Psychology at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. He devotes his research and social activism to all issues related to independent music culture.

Miaoju Jian is Professor of Communication, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan. Her extensive research and publications have covered topics from the culture and political economy of reality TV programs to indie-music scenes and DIY culture in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and East Asia.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Problematizing and Contextualizing Taiwanese Popular Music

Eva Tsai, Tung- hung Ho, and Miaoju Jian

Part I: Trajectories

1 Profi ling 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

Part II: Identities

4 Entangled Identities: The Music and Social Signifi cance of Hsu Shih, a Vanguard Composer of Taiyu Ballads

C.S. Stone Shih

5 The Cultural Hybridization 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

Part III: Issues

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

Part IV: Interactions

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

CODA 211

14 How Taiwanese Indie Music Embraces the World: 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, and Eva Tsai

A Selected Bibliography on Popular Music in Taiwan

Index

Editorial Reviews

"This anthology is a sumptuous and ambitious project. It is sumptuous because the contributors offer readers a unique occasion to understand Taiwanese popular music, along an expansive time line (from the late 1890s to 2019), across an unusual musical diversity (whether in terms of what we usually understand as genres, or pop defined linguistically or cultural-historically), and informed by a wide range of disciplines (media and communication studies, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, East Asian studies and ethnomusicology). It is ambitious because the editors are not content with a sumptuous collection. ... All in all, Made in Taiwan is a must read for anyone interested in Taiwan, Taiwanese popular music and popular music at large. For the richness of musical genres, case studies and academic disciplines included in the anthology, it is relevant to scholars operating in a wide range of fields. It should also be a good textbook for courses on popular music, globalization and area studies."

—Yiu Fai Chow, Global Media and China

"Made in Taiwan: Studies in Popular Music is part of the Routledge Global Popular Music Series, which aims to provide English-speaking readers with timely and authoritative introductions to different world popular music scenes. The series is distinguished by its roster of contributors drawn primarily from institutions local to the countries they examine, many of whom do not always disseminate the products of their research in English. For this reason alone, Made in Taiwan should find warm welcome among English-speaking readers with special interest in the island’s culture industries. As it stands, however, this essential volume also has much to offer a broader academic constituency keen to take a deep cultural-historical dive into the complex and 'multilayered realities of Taiwan.'"

—Meredith Schweig, Yearbook for Traditional Music

"Made in Taiwan: Studies in Popular Music is part of the now well-established Routledge Global Popular Music series. The book represents an effort by these editors to gather authors from a range of disciplinary specializations, admirably including some who have hitherto published primarily in Chinese, and is thus a product of pains-taking collaborative work rather than just a collection of essays. ... It is a groundbreaking book and highly recommended for scholars and students interested in Taiwanese popular music, and in East Asian popular music broadly."

—Hyunjoon Shin, Journal of World Popular Music

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