[ecrea] Book announcement: Sonic Multiciplities

"Yiu Fai Chow and Jeroen de Kloet are happy to announce the publication 
of Sonic Multiplicities: Hong Kong Pop and the Global Circulation of 
Sound and Image.

This book examines the material, ideological, and geopolitical 
implications of music production and consumption in Hong Kong, and China 
at large. It exposes a new path for the study of popular music and its 
circulation. Through the lens of popular music in and from Hong Kong, 
"Sonic Multiplicities" examines the material, ideological, and 
geopolitical implications of music production and consumption.

The authors draw on rich empirical research and industry experience to 
trace the worldwide flow of popular culture and the people who produce 
and consume it. In doing so, the authors make a significant contribution 
to our understanding of the political and social roles such circulation 
plays in today's world - and in a city under cultural threat in a 
country whose prominence is on the rise. Just as important, they clear a 
new path for the study of popular music."

For further details:

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Sonic-Multiplicities-Yiu-Fai-Chow/9781841506159?b=-3&t=-20#Fulldescription-20 
<http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Sonic-Multiplicities-Yiu-Fai-Chow/9781841506159?b=-3&t=-20#Fulldescription-20>

The first edition will only be available in hard covers. (Perhaps for 
your libraries?) Most importantly, if you are interested in writing a 
review, please let us (via Yiu Fai, (yfchow /at/ hkbu.edu.hk) 
<mailto:(yfchow /at/ hkbu.edu.hk)>) know and we will ask the publisher to send 
you a copy for that purpose. Support us! Thanks, and best wishes for the 
new year.

Yiu Fai and Jeroen Kloet