In 2004 the cultural historian Andrew Jones of the US published a book entitled Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. Taking the popular music of 1930s Shanghai as a case study of hybrid colonial aesthetics, he analyzes the impact of the new medium of the gramophone on musical activities, society, and culture in the non-Western world from the late 19th century to the beginning of World War II.
在 2004 年出版的《留聲中國》這本關於聲音文化的論著中，美籍文化史學者安德魯・瓊斯，以 1930 年代中國上海流行音樂反映的「殖民地雜燴美學」為例，分析了 19 世紀末至二次大戰前，留聲機此一「媒介技術」，對於世界各地的音樂活動乃至社會文化，曾引發何等深遠的影響。