China with a Cut : Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music (Paperback)

Provides insight into the vibrant popular music scene of contemporary China in the context of globalisation and rapid economic and social change During the 1990s illegally imported compact discs, known as dakou CDs, flooded into China, opening up the music world to Chinese youth and inspiring them to experiment with new sounds and new lifestyles.

Quickly, dakou became the label for a new generation of Chinese, a vibrant generation no longer tied to the Maoist past.