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ISSUE 1MARCH 2024
From the 90s’ most prominent punk star to the best indie rock band of the 21st century, this newsletter explores the impact of censorship and authoritarian control on the yaogun community. Composed of translated excerpts from interviews, album booklets, and internet comments, accompanied by lyrical analysis and curated playlists.
New Little Bar music venue located in the Yulin Subdistrict of Chengdu. The original Little Bar location was the birthplace of underground music in Chengdu, China. Photographed by 蔡鸣 (Cai Min), 2009.
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FURTHER READINGS
BooksAndrew F. Jones
“Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music“
Cornell University Press, 1992
ISBN:
Nimrod Baranovitch
“China's New Voices: Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender, and Politics, 1978-1997”
University of California Press, 2003
ISBN: 9780520234505
Jeroen de Kloet
“China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music”
Amsterdam University Press, 2008
ISBN: 9789089641625
锤子
《昨日不辞而别：废都摇滚记忆1990-2014》
鹭江出版社，2015
ISBN: 9787545909180
高原
《把青春唱完：1990-1999》
中信出版社，2015
ISBN: 9787508653471
雪季
《摇滚梦寻》
中国电影出版社，1993
ISBN: 9787106008741
ArticlesNathanel Amar
“The Lives of Dakou in China: From Waste to Nostalgia”
Études Chinoises, vol. 37, n°2,2018. pp. 35-60
2018
“Including Music in the Sinophone, Provincializing Chinese Music”
China Perspectives, 2019, No. 3 (118) (2019), pp. 3-8
2019
“Navigating and Circumventing (Self)censorship in the Chinese Music Scene”
China Perspectives , 2020, No. 2 (121) (2020), pp. 25-34
2020
“Radical Participation: The Politics of Performance in Chinese Punk-Rock Concerts”
Fractured Scenes: Underground Music-Making in Hong Kong and East Asia, pp.189–203.
2021
Stacy Anderson
“Beijing Calling: Suspicion, Hope, and Resistance in the Chinese Rock Underground“
Rolling Stone, 2021
Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau
“Steel and Strawberries: How Chinese Rock Became State-Sponsored“
Asian Music, Volume 45, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2014, pp. 3-33
2014
Hao Huang
“Yaogun Yinyue: Rethinking Mainland Chinese Rock 'n' Roll”
Popular Music , Jan., 2001, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 1-11
2001
“Voices from Chinese Rock, Past and
Present Tense: Social Commentary and
Construction of Identity in Yaogun Yinyue,
from Tiananmen to the Present”
Popular Music and Society, Vol. 26, No. 2
2003
Jeroen de Kloet
“Confusing Confucius: Rock in Contemporary China”
Policing Pop, Temple University Press
2003
“Popular Music and Youth in Urban China: The Dakou Generation“
The China Quarterly , Sep., 2005, No. 183, Culture in the Contemporary PRC
(Sep., 2005), pp. 609-626
2005
“Authenticating Geographies and Temporalities:
Representations of Chinese Rock in China”
Visual Anthropology, 18: 229–255
2005
PodcastRadiolab
“Mixtape: Dakou”
Oct. 22, 2021
http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/mixtape-dakou/
DocumentariesYouTube Playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQots5ZXea6BrYaBo_dPrpHsqeguLmbJN&si=WXio-cumTr1lFzgT
(Most have English subtitles)
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