Circuit Listening - 9781517902063

Circuit ListeningChinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s\nAuthor(s): Andrew F. Jones\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517902063, 978-1517902063\nSynopsis\nHow the Chinese pop of the 1960s participated in a global musical revolution\n\n What did Maos China have to do with the music of youth revolt in the 1960s? And how did the mambo, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan sound on the front lines of the Cold War in Asia? In Circuit Listening, Andrew F. Jones listens in on the 1960s beyond the West, and suggests how transistor technology, decolonization, and the Green Revolution transformed the sound of music around the globe.\n\nFocusing on the introduction of the transistor in revolutionary China and its Cold War counterpart in Taiwan, Circuit Listening reveals the hidden parallels between music as seemingly disparate as rock and roll and Maoist anthems. It offers groundbreaking studies of Mandarin .