Geography of Chinese rock and roll: cultural, political and economic
forces intertwined
Abstract
This chapter mines the literature to bring out the richness and
heterogeneity of Chinese rock. The first part charts the geography of
music as the intersection of situated material space and networked
topology. Chinese rock thus assembles disparate elements from the two
wests: the capitalist-west and, the western China of the silk roads. The
second part addresses the live rock scenes that has mushroomed in
cities, some as forces of dissenters, some as state-sanctioned role
models, or, as a hybrid form of both.