Music As Mao's Weapon : Remembering the Cultural Revolution / Lei X. Ouyang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ouyang, Lei, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--China--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Music.

Music and state--China.

Music and state.

China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Music and the revolution.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages)

Place of Publication:

Champaign, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

Summary:

"China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) produced propaganda music that still stirs unease and, at times, evokes nostalgia. Lei X. Ouyang uses selections from revolutionary songbooks to untangle the complex interactions between memory, trauma, and generational imprinting among those who survived the period of extremes. Interviews combine with ethnographic fieldwork and surveys to explore both the Cultural Revolution's effect on those who lived through it as children and contemporary remembrance of the music created to serve the Maoist regime. As Ouyang shows, the weaponization of music served an ideological revolution but also revolutionized the senses. She examines essential questions raised by this phenomenon: What did the revolutionization look, sound, and feel like? What does it take for individuals and groups to engage with such music? And what is the impact of such an experience over time? Perceptive and provocative, Music as Mao's Weapon is an insightful look at the exploitation and manipulation of the arts under authoritarianism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Researching the Battlefield

Music and Politics

Memories of the Battlefield : "It's in Your Bones, It's in Your Blood"

Music and Childhood

Memories of the Battlefield : "Learning Music to Avoid Going 'Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside'"

Music and Memory

Memories of the Battlefield : "You Hear These Songs and You Are Inspired"

Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Ouyang, Lei X. Music As Mao's Weapon

ISBN:

9780252053115

0252053117

OCLC:

1291362026