A contemporary history of the Chinese zheng / Ann L. Silverberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silverberg, Ann L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zheng--China--History--20th century.

Zheng.

Zheng--China--History--21st century.

Zheng--China--Hong Kong--History.

Zheng--Taiwan--History.

Zheng music--China--History and criticism.

Zheng music.

Folk music--China--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Folk music--Political aspects--China.

Musical instruments--China--History.

Musical instruments.

China.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 231 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2023]

Summary:

This book traces the twentieth- and twenty-first-century development of an important Chinese musical instrument in greater China. The zheng was transformed over the course of the twentieth century, becoming a solo instrument with virtuosic capacity. In the past, the zheng had appeared in small instrumental ensembles and supplied improvised accompaniments to song. Zheng music became a means of nation-building, and was eventually promoted as a marker of Chinese identity in Hong Kong. Ann L. Silverberg uses evidence from the greater China area to show how the narrative history of the zheng created on the mainland did not represent zheng music as it had been in the past. Silverberg ultimately argues that the zheng's older repertory was poorly represented by efforts to collect and promote zheng music in the twentieth century. This book contends that the restored "traditional Chinese music" created and promulgated from the 1920s forward - and solo zheng music in particular - is a hybrid of "Chinese essence, Western means" that essentially obscures rather than reveals tradition.-- Back cover.

Contents:

Cultural and theoretical context

The zheng's history prior to 1949

Zheng art in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979

The zheng in Hong Kong, 1949-1979

The zheng in Taiwan, 1949-1979, Zheng music in the "Opening Up and Reform" era

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Silverberg, Ann L. Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng.

ISBN:

9789888754342

9888754343

OCLC:

1351691951