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Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 01 January 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822391319-024
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9131-9
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 21 October 2008
DOI: 10.1215/9780822389385-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8938-5
Book Chapter

By Jean Ma
Published: 13 May 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375623-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7562-3
... Grace Chang was one of the biggest stars of postwar Hong Kong film and popular music, most remembered for her debut role in Mambo Girl, which introduced to Chinese cinema the figure of the singing and dancing teenager. Her performances introduced new, foreign musical styles—such as American rock...
Published: 02 March 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372332-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7233-2
Series: Art History Publication Initiative
Published: 15 November 2019
DOI: 10.1215/9781478004554-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0455-4
Book Chapter

By Jean Ma
Published: 13 May 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7562-3
... Grace Chang [Ge Lan] Mambo Girl dance cosmopolitanism ...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374947-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
... architecture of the cold war? This essay listens closely to the musical cinema of Hong Kong and Taiwan of the 1960s in order to answer these questions. Jones focuses on the Hong Kong diva Grace Chang and her appropriation of Afro-Caribbean genres, such as mambo and calypso, in a series of high-flying...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
... of the cold war? This essay listens closely to the musical cinema of Hong Kong and Taiwan of the 1960s in order to answer these questions. Jones focuses on the Hong Kong diva Grace Chang and her appropriation of Afro-Caribbean genres, such as mambo and calypso, in a series of high-flying transnationally...