History Salon: Cantopop in Hong Kong and beyond | 【歷史沙龍】衝出香港的粵語流行曲

Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic talk, debate, discussion

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History Salon: Cantopop in Hong Kong and beyond

Date: 28 September 2024
Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Space (1.H020), Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: Cantonese

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Additional Information:
- In-person only.
- Please register on Ticketpass. A small amount of Hong Kong-style refreshments will be provided.
https://tktp.as/EYBKIY
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Hong Kong’s pop music scene has recently ‘ignited’ the interest of its audience. Some believe that Hong Kong’s music scene has ‘died’, while others hope to bring Cantopop beyond the city. Hong Kong’s popular music has resounded all over the world, but this is not unique to the present day. Cantonese film songs of the 1950s-60s, the ‘golden age’ of composer Joseph Koo and lyricist James Wong of the 1970s-80s, the ‘Four Heavenly Kings’ of the 1990s and so on have all enabled Hong Kong’s popular music to go beyond borders and touch Chinese communities overseas. This History Salon will invite our audience to partake in the historical stage, revisit emotions embedded in Cantopop, and investigate how the songs presented different facades of Hong Kong to Chinese communities around the world.

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Dr Allan Pang is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Hong Kong History Centre, University of Bristol. His research interests include the history of Hong Kong, Chinese overseas, and Southeast Asia. His PhD dissertation at the University of Cambridge examines Chinese history education in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore in the second half of the twentieth century. His works have appeared in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, the Historical Journal, and Seventy Years of Cantopop (edited volume in Chinese).
Period28 Sept 2024
Held atDepartment of History (Historical Studies)