Document Type
Journal Article
Department/Unit
Department of Sociology
Title
The subversive sociocultural meanings of Cantopop electronic dance music
Language
English
Abstract
This study identifies and analyzes the socioculturally subversive characteristics of "Cantopop electronic dance music," a pop music genre that has been completely neglected by scholars. The first characteristic is the music's facilitation of local resistance against the cultural authority of global music producers, audiences, and gatekeepers. The second is its empowering of underprivileged local social groups against local cultural elites. Next is its adoption of a colloquial vocabulary and local dialect instead of the national standard language. And last is its playful deconstruction of the conservative social ideologies embodied in mainstream Cantopop. © 2010 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved.
Publication Date
2009
Source Publication Title
Chinese Sociology and Anthropology
Volume
42
Issue
2
Start Page
76
End Page
93
Publisher
ME Sharpe
DOI
10.2753/CSA0009-4625420204
Link to Publisher's Edition
ISSN (print)
00094625
Recommended Citation
Chew, Matthew M.. "The subversive sociocultural meanings of Cantopop electronic dance music." Chinese Sociology and Anthropology 42.2 (2009): 76-93.