Prof. Hon-Lun Helan Yang
Programme Director of Bachelor of Music (Hons) in Creative Industries and Professor, Department of Music
| Phone number | 3411-7329 |
|---|---|
| Email address | hlyang@hkbu.edu.hk |
| ORCID number | 0000-0003-3373-2534 |
Degree(s):
B.A. (CUHK), M.A. (University of Texas at Austin), Ph.D. (Washington University in St. Louis)
Research area(s):
Contemporary Chinese music; Chinese and Hong Kong popular music; music and politics; music censorship; migration and music; transnational and global musical networks; nationalism and identity
Teaching area(s):
Western music history; Cantopop; Music and Society
Selected output(s):
• Yang, Hon-Lun, Simo Mikkonen & John Winzenburg. 2020. Networking the Russian Musical Diaspora in Inter-War Shanghai. University of Hawaii Press.
• Yang, Hon-Lun. 2019. “Music, Class, and Censorship. Songs of the Outcast: Popular Music, Class, and Censorship in the PRC.” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class. New York, Bloomsbury Publishing, 161-182.
• Yang, Hon-Lun. 2019. “Hearing the Second Sino-Japanese War: Musical Nationalism and Internationalism in Xian Xinghai’s Yellow River Cantata,” Journal of Musicological Research 38 (1): 16-31.
• Yang, Hon-Lun & Michael Saffle eds. 2017. China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception, University of Michigan Press.
• Yang, Hon-Lun. 2016. “Unravelling The East is Red: Socialist Music and Politics in the People’s Republic of China.” Composing for the State: Music in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships, eds. Esteban Buch, Igor Contreras Zubillaga, Manuel Deniz Silva. New York: Ashgate/Routledge, 51-68.
Current project(s):
• 2019-2021. Made in Hong Kong: Technology and Cantopop Creativity in the 2000s, General Research Fund of the Hong Kong University Grant Council (with Edmond Tsang): (GRF12609119) (HK$296,000)