China and the West : Music, Representation, and Reception /

China and the West : Music, Representation, and Reception /

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Western music reached China nearly four centuries ago, with the arrival of Christian missionaries, yet only within the last century has Chinese music absorbed its influence. The emergence of "Westernized" music from China -concurrent with the technological advances that have made global cu...

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Other Authors: Saffle, Michael, 1946- (Editor), Yang, Hon-Lun (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Orientalism in music.
Music > Western influences.
Music > Chinese influences.
Exoticism in music.
MUSIC > General.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
Orientalisme dans la musique.
Exotisme dans la musique.
Musique > Influence chinoise.
Music > China > Western influences.
China.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Music, China, and the West : a musical-theoretical introduction / Hon-Lun Yang
  • The pipe organ of the Baroque era in China / David Francis Urrows
  • From colonial modernity to global identity : the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra / Hon-Lun Yang
  • Calafati, Sou-Chong, Lang Lang, and Li Wei : two hundred years of "the Chinese" in Austrian music, drama, and film / Cornelia Szabâo-Knotik
  • Eastern fantasies on Western stages : Chinese-themed operettas and musical comedies in turn-of-the-last-century London and New York / Michael Saffle
  • The many lives of Flower drum song (1957-2002) : negotiating Chinese American identity in print, on stage, and on screen / James Deaville
  • Deterritorializing spirituality : intercultural encounters in Iron road / Mary Ingraham
  • Chinese opera percussion from model opera to Tan Dun / Nancy Yunhwa Rao
  • Spanning the timbral divide : insiders, outsiders, and novelty in Chinese-Western fusion concertos / John Winzenburg
  • Combinations of the familiar and the strange : aspects of Asian-Dutch encounters in recent music history / Emile Wennekes
  • The Shanghai Quartet's Chinasong : a musical counterpart to English-language cultural revolution memoirs? / Eric Hung
  • Contested imaginaries of collective harmony : the poetics and politics of "silk road" nostalgia in China and the West / Harm Langenkamp
  • When a great nation emerges : Chinese music in the world / Frederick Lau
  • A postscipt / Michael Saffle.

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