In "It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong," the authors focus on just one band from one city – but the story of Tat Ming Pair, in so many ways, is the story of Hong Kong's recent decades, from the Handover to the Umbrella Movement to the social protests in 2019. The book is a timely and daring inquiry into the intricate relationship between politics and pop music. This is all the more urgent in times like ours, where we can witness an increasing urgency for a different and more resilient cultural politics – not only in East Asia but also in the world at large. How can music, art, and popular culture change the current political tide? How can it open up new imaginations of the present or future? Can it help us to live life differently? We will be looking for the answers in this book launch…

The book is the first outcome of the ERC-funded project RESCUE: Resilient Cultures – Music, Art, and Cinema in Mainland China and Hong Kong.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-6710-0