Abstract
In the late 1970s to early 1980s, with the advent of reform and opening up, popular music, which had remained dormant for three decades, began to revive and became a pioneer in the first wave of popular culture in mainland China. Guangdong played the role of a forerunner and pathfinder in this process. As a form of mass entertainment culture with distinctive local features in Guangdong, music teahouses offer an exemplary case for exploring the relationships among administrators, the market, performers, and audiences/listeners as consumers in the construction of the field of popular culture during the transitional period. Drawing on Bourdieu's field theory, this article analyzes music teahouses as a field of cultural practice by examining administrators, businesspeople, performers, and consumers, as well as their mutual relationships. It further discusses how their cooperation and negotiation shaped and constructed music teahouses.
Keywords
Music teahouse, government, market, Pierre Bourdieu, field
First Page
26
Last Page
41
Recommended Citation
Tao, Dongfeng, and Yunxia Fan. 2026. "A Field of Cultural Practice Shaped by the Interaction of Multiple Forces: A Study of Guangzhou Music Teahouses in the Early Reform and Opening-up Period." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 46, (2): pp.26-41. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol46/iss2/3
