Reading List for Taiwan’s Popular Music

Chang, S. (2010). The face of independence? A visual record of Taiwanese indie music scene.
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 11(1), 89–99.

Chow, Y. F., & de Kloet, J. (2011). Blowing in the China wind: Engagements with Chineseness in Hong
Kong’s zhongguofeng music videos. Visual Anthropology, 24(1), 59–76.
https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2011.525492

Chua, B. H. (2001). Pop Culture China. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 22(2), 113–121.

Chun, A., Rossiter, N., & Shoesmith, B. (2004). Refashioning Pop Music in Asia.

Flower, A., & Guy, N. (2008). Feeling a Shared History through Song: “A Flower in the Rainy Night”
as a Key Cultural Symbol in Taiwan. DTR, 52(4), 64–81.

Fung, A. (2008). Western Style, Chinese Pop : Jay Chou ’s Rap and Hip-Hop in China. Asian Music,
39(1), 69–80.

Guy, N. (1999). Governing the arts, governing the state: Peking opera and political authority in
Taiwan. Ethnomusicology, 43(3), 508 -526.

Ho, T. (2003). The social formation of Taiwan’s Mandarin popular music industry. Lancaster
University. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201200111

Jian, M.-J. (2017). The legendary venues and the live music scenes in Taipei and Beijing:
Underworld and D22. In K. Iwabuchi, E. Tsai, & C. Berry (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of East Asian
Popular Culture (pp. 124–134). London and New York: Routledge.

Lin, C.-Y., & Um, H. K. (2017). From “Blue and White Porcelain” to “Island” s Sunrise’: Young
audience perceptions of Chineseness and Taiwaneseness in Taiwan’s popular music. East Asian Journal
of Popular Culture, 3(2), 153–167.

Moskowitz, M. L. (2009). Mandopop under siege: culturally bound criticisms of Taiwan’s pop music.
Popular Music, 28(1), 69–83.

Moskowitz, M. L. (2010). Cries of joy, songs of sorrow: Chinese pop music and its cultural
connotations. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Tan, S. E. (2012). Beyond ’innocence’ : Amis aboriginal song in Taiwan as an ecosystem. Surrey:
Ashgate.

Tsai, E., & Shin, H. (2013). Strumming a place of one’s own: gender, independence and the East
Asian pop-rock screen. Popular Music, 32(1), 7–22.

Wang, G. (2012). The ABCs of Chinese Pop: Wang Leehom and the Marketing of a Global Chinese
Celebrity. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 4(1), 21.

Ying-yu, W. (1999). Transnationalizing the local: The rock records story. Asian Journal of
Communicaiton, 9(2).