China and the West Music, Representation, and Reception / edited by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yang, Hon-Lu, Editor.

Contributor:

Saffle, Michael, 1946- editor.

Yang, Hon-Lun, editor.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orientalism in music.

Exoticism in music.

Music--China--Western influences.

Music.

Music--Chinese influences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2017

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception is the first book to explore how Chinese and Western musical materials and traditions-those involving instruments, melodies, rhythms, staged diversions (including operas and musical comedies), concert works, film scores, and digital recordings of several kinds-have gradually moved closer together and become increasingly accepted, as well as exploited, in Asia as well as Europe and North America. Although aimed in large part at a scholarly audience, China and the West should appeal to general readers of many kinds: those interested in politics, cultural history and theory, gender studies, sociology, theater, and media studies as well as musical composition and performance of 'classical' as well as traditional and popular kinds.

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 postscript / Michael Saffle.

Notes:

This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780472900756

0472900757

OCLC:

974947641

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.5555199