ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Trajectories
chapter 1|20 pages
Profiling a Postwar Trajectory of Taiwanese Popular Music
Nativism in Metamorphosis and Its Alternatives
chapter 2|12 pages
Producing Mandopop in 1960s Taiwan
When a Prolific Composer Met a Pioneering Entrepreneur
chapter 3|18 pages
The Development of the Indigenous “Mountain Music Industry” and “Mountain Songs” (1960–1970s)
Production and Competition
part II|2 pages
Identities
chapter 4|16 pages
Entangled Identities
The Music and Social Significance of Hsu Shih, a Vanguard Composer of Taiyu Ballads
chapter 5|14 pages
The Cultural Hybridization of Taiyu Pop Songs
The Case of Taiyu Covers of Japanese Tunes
chapter 6|14 pages
Rock and Roll from Rest and Recreation (R&R)
The Collective Memory of the Aging Pop-Rock Lovers in Taiwan
chapter 7|9 pages
Chrysanthemum Fields Forever
The Labor Exchange Band, Taiwanese Folk Rock, and the LP Form
part III|2 pages
Issues
chapter 8|12 pages
How Taiwanese Students Learn
High School Extracurricular Clubs and the Making of Young Rock Musicians
chapter 10|11 pages
Muscular Vernaculars
Braggadocio, “Academic Rappers,” and Alternative Hip-Hop Masculinity in Taiwan
part IV|2 pages
Interactions
chapter 11|18 pages
Indie Music as Cool Ambassadors?
Export-Oriented Cultural Policy in Taiwan, 2010–2017
chapter 12|12 pages
Multidimensionality of Chineseness in Taiwan’s Mandopop
Jay Chou’s China Wind Pop and the Transnational Audience
chapter 13|10 pages
“The Eternal Sweetheart for the Nation”
A Political Epitaph for Teresa Teng’s Music Journey in Taiwan
part |2 pages
Coda
chapter 14|16 pages
How Taiwanese Indie Music Embraces the World
Global Mandopop, East Asian DIY Networks, and the Translocal Entrepreneurial Promoters
part |2 pages
Afterword
chapter 15|17 pages
Orbiting and Down-to-Earth
A Conversation with Lim Giong about His Music, Art, and Mind
