Sonic Multiplicities
Author | : Yiu Fai Chow |
Publisher | : Intellect (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
ISBN-10 | : 1783200049 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781783200047 |
Rating | : 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 'Sonic Multiplicities is a fascinating book, with essays rich in empirical detail and - captivatingly combining the personal and the theoretical - evocative of the complexities of experience, desire and politics in our perplexingly mobile and entangled world. The book's focus on Hong Kong pop music as part of a translocal, if not global network of flows provides a starting point for the authors to unsettle received notions of Chineseness, place and identity, of particular importance in a time when we need to come to terms with, and resist, the increasingly stifling discourse of "the rise of Ch.