Popular Music among Hong Kong Youth

This paper tracks the relationship between popular music and youth culture in Hong Kong with respect to popular idols and technological advancement. It highlights the specific ways in which musical production is shaped by commercial production, and the broader social context within which the promotion of popular music and popular signers takes place. Popular music consumption, like that of other media and technology, is woven into the daily life of youth through various means, such as playing compact discs on computers, ringtones, and by downloading music from the Internet. In particular, this paper examines three pairs of relationships associated with the associated with the transmission of cultural values in popular music and educational beliefs in school: (a) between students' preferred popular music and the Hong Kong music curriculum: (b) between students' experiences of popular music and that of their teachers; and (c) between school education and pirated music.

本文探討於新興科技的發達與流行偶像的崇拜現象下，香港流行音樂與香港青少年文化之間微妙的互動關係。本文特別強調，在獨特的商業音樂製作過程中，流行音樂與歌手是如何在社會上形成並廣泛地被接受。藉由光碟與電腦的普遍使用，甚至由互聯網下載手機鈴聲的方式，流行音樂與現代年輕人的生活，有著密不可分的關係。