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Musicians from a different shore : Asians and Asian Americans in classical music / Mari Yoshihara.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3795 .Y67 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yoshihara, Mari, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Asian American musicians--Social conditions.
- East Asian American musicians.
- Musicians--East Asia--Social conditions.
- Musicians.
- Music--Social aspects--United States.
- Music.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Music--Social aspects--East Asia.
- East Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- In the first book to account for the growing prominence of Asians in the world of Western classical music, Mari Yoshihara grapples with the significance of this trend. This is a book about the about the origins of a social and cultural phenomenon, but it is also about the lives and work of individual musicians devoted to their art.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Rising Scale in Relative Minor i
- 1 Early Lessons in Globalization 11
- Voices 49
- 2 The Roots and Routes of Asian Musicians 62
- 3 Playing Gender 100
- 4 Class Notes 131
- Voices 166
- 5 A Voice of One's Own 187
- Conclusion: Musicians First 225.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781592133321
- 1592133320
- OCLC:
- 137331351
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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