History of Hong Kong Music

In a century or more during which Hong Kong was transformed from a small fishing village into a cosmopolitan city in Asia, Hong Kong's musical and cultural ecology has undergone reborn changes.The History of Hong Kong Music: Cantonese Pop Music Serious Music Cantonese Opera comprehensively expounds the development course of various music activities in Hong Kong from the three key points of Cantonese pop music, serious music, Cantonese opera and other performing arts. .A series of vivid chapters of Hong Kong's local music activities in over 100 years from the mid-19th century to the beginning of the 21st century are presented to readers. The author of this book, Professor Liu Jingzhi, is a music educator, researcher and famous classical music critic, and also a citizen and philharmonic who loves Hong Kong.The book collects the author's research results in many years, including history sorting, music analysis, and philharmonic experience; also condensed a large number of insights of local music researchers, music creators, and policy makers on Hong Kong music development.The book also contains in-depth interviews with 30 contemporary local music creators, of whom half are pop musicians and half are composers.Their life experiences, artistic experiences and opinions on the development of music in Hong Kong present a unique microcosm of Hong Kong's music heritage, evolution and development in a century.