Pianos And Politics In China

Author : Richard Curt Kraus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1989-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195363265

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Pianos and Politics in China by Richard Curt Kraus Pdf

In China, a nation where the worlds of politics and art are closely linked, Western classical music was considered during the cultural revolution to be an imperialist intrusion, in direct conflict with the native aesthetic. In this revealing chronicle of the relationship between music and politics in twentieth-century China, Richard Kraus examines the evolution of China's ever-changing disposition towards European music and demonstrates the steady westernization of Chinese music. Placing China's cultural conflicts in global perspective, he traces the lives of four Chinese musicians and reflects on how their experiences are indicative of China's place at the furthest edge of an expanding Western international order.

Author : Perry Link
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000009774

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Unofficial China by Perry Link Pdf

This book presents a view of social life in China and discusses different methods for studying contemporary China as a tool for introducing students to the study of popular culture. Through a diverse set of case studies, it introduces readers to a wide range of issues facing Chinese society.

Author : Barbara Mittler
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : China
ISBN : 3447039205

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Dangerous Tunes by Barbara Mittler Pdf

Barbara Mittler's book is the first comprehensive monographic study of China's New Music written in a Western language. It deals with two key points of contention: the effects of politics on the development of Chinese New Music, and the importance of China's indigenous musical traditions for the development of her New Music. In many ways, it is a handbook to New Chinese Music as it provides biographical and musicological sketches of the greater number of China's composers. As a reference work it will thus be of interest to libraries as well as to musicologists and music impressarios. The book is unique as a comparative study of New Chinese Music under three different political systems. Its conclusions, the discovery of (and explanations for) inherent similarities in those three New Musics will be of interest to sinologists in the field of politics and cultural studies.

Author : Hong Yung Lee,Lee (Hong Yung)
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520032977

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The Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Hong Yung Lee,Lee (Hong Yung) Pdf

Author : Zhengyuan Fu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521442281

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Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics by Zhengyuan Fu Pdf

This book examines the Chinese political tradition over the past two thousand years and argues that the enduring and most important feature of this tradition is autocracy. The author interprets the communist takeover of 1949 not as a revolution but as a continuation of the imperial tradition. The book shows how Mao Zedong revitalised this autocratic tradition along five lines: the use of ideology for political control; concentration of power in the hands of a few; state power over all aspects of life; law as a tool wielded by the ruler, who is himself above the law; and the subjection of the individual to the state. Using a statist approach, the book argues that in China political action of the state has been the single most important factor in determining socio-economic change.

Author : Nancy Faber,Randall Faber
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781616773373

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PlayTime Piano Music from China - Level 1 by Nancy Faber,Randall Faber Pdf

(Faber Piano Adventures ). PlayTime Piano Music from China is a musical journey featuring energetic dances, quiet folk melodies, and original Chinese pieces. The book is arranged especially for the early elementary student and correlates with Level 1 in the Piano Adventures method. At this level, five-finger positions reinforce tonalities and intervals. Teacher duets provide a full, rich background. Along the way, students meet LeLe the musical panda, their whimsical guide to exploring the Chinese sound through discovery questions, improvisation, and composition activities. A picture tour of China, unique at each level of the series, introduces highlights of history and culture. Songs include: Fengyang Flower-Drum * Frog Dance * Let's Sing * Pouch Embroidering * Song of the Newsboy * Tune from Xinjiang * What Is the Most Beautiful.

Author : Charles Hamm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521471985

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Putting Popular Music in Its Place by Charles Hamm Pdf

Essays on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with politics and ideology.

Author : Sheila Melvin,Jindong Cai
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780875861869

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Rhapsody in Red by Sheila Melvin,Jindong Cai Pdf

Western classical music has become as Chinese as Peking Opera, and it has woven its way into the hearts and lives of ordinary Chinese people. This lucidly written account traces the biographies of the bold visionaries who carried out this musical merger. Rhapsody in Red is a history of classical music in China that revolves around a common theme: how Western classical music entered China, and how it became Chinese. Chinas oldest orchestra was founded in 1879, two years before the Boston Symphony. Since then, classical music has woven its way into the lives of ordinary Chinese people. Millions of Chinese children take piano and violin lessons every week. Yet, despite the importance of classical music in China -- and of Chinese classical musicians and composers to the world -- next to nothing has been written on this fascinating subject. The authors capture the events with the voice of an insider and the perspective of a Westerner, presenting new information, original research and insights into a topic that has barely been broached elsewhere. The only other significant books touching on this field are Pianos and Politics: Middle Class Ambitions and The Struggle Over Western Music by Richard Kurt Kraus (1989), and Barbara Mittler's Dangerous Tunes - The Politics of Chinese Music. Both target the academic market. Pianos focuses narrowly on the political aspects of the Cultural Revolution and subsequent re-opening. Rhapsody in Red is a far better read and benefits from considerably more research with primary source material in China over the past decade; and it covers classical music in general over all the history of East-West interaction. This book will appeal to a general readership interested in China -- the same readers who made "Wild Swans" a bestseller. It will also appeal to all who are interested in the future of classical music. It could easily be used for college courses on modern China, cultural history and ethnomusicology.

Author : Richard Curt Kraus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991-07-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520072855

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Brushes with Power by Richard Curt Kraus Pdf

Explores the interplay of politics and the art of writing in China today to explain the complex relationship between tradition and modernity in Chinese culture.

Author : Laikwan Pang,Paul Clark,Tsan-Huang Tsai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137463579

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Listening to China’s Cultural Revolution by Laikwan Pang,Paul Clark,Tsan-Huang Tsai Pdf

Bringing together the most recent research on the Cultural Revolution in China, musicologists, historians, literary scholars, and others discuss the music and its political implications. Combined, these chapters, paint a vibrant picture of the long-lasting impact that the musical revolution had on ordinary citizens, as well as political leaders.

Author : Shiping Hua,Andrew J. Nathan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315500478

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Chinese Political Culture by Shiping Hua,Andrew J. Nathan Pdf

Until this book, there has been no comprehensive, methodologically aware study of all aspects of Chinese political culture. The book is organized into three major areas: Chinese identities and popular culture (regional identities, anti-politics attitudes, Hong Kong identity); public opinion surveys (the Beijing area, Chinese workers, the Shanghai area); and ideological debates (the "new" Confucianism, masculinity and Confucianism, why authoritarianism is popular in China, the decline of Chinese official ideology). Here is the first work that reveals just how much, how rapidly, and how dramatically China is changing and why our perceptions of China must keep pace.

Author : Richard Curt Kraus
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199740550

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The Cultural Revolution by Richard Curt Kraus Pdf

Examines the radical Chinese Communist movement called the Cultural Revolution, a period of suppression so controversial in China, that the Chinese government forbids a full investigation into it even 50 years later. Original.

Author : Leta E. Miller,J. Michele Edwards
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252052422

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Chen Yi by Leta E. Miller,J. Michele Edwards Pdf

Winner of the Leila Webster Memorial Music Award for the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music Chen Yi is the most prominent woman among the renowned group of new wave composers who came to the US from mainland China in the early 1980s. Known for her creative output and a distinctive merging of Chinese and Western influences, Chen built a musical language that references a breathtaking range of sources and crisscrosses geographical and musical borders without eradicating them. Leta E. Miller and J. Michele Edwards provide an accessible guide to the composer's background and her more than 150 works. Extensive interviews with Chen complement in-depth analyses of selected pieces from Chen's solos for Western or Chinese instruments, chamber works, choral and vocal pieces, and compositions scored for wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, or full orchestra. The authors highlight Chen's compositional strategies, her artistic elaborations, and the voice that links her earliest and most recent music. A concluding discussion addresses questions related to Chen's music and issues such as gender, ethnicity and nationality, transnationalism, border crossing, diaspora, exoticism, and identity.

Author : Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk,Peter W. Preston
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784711276

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The Logic of Chinese Politics by Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk,Peter W. Preston Pdf

Europe and China have a long intermingled history reaching back to the earliest phases of the shift to the modern world. In the twenty-first century Europe and China are rediscovering their interlinked histories and reestablishing relationships. One aspect of this process involves cutting through received images of China and this book presents a clear, concise, scholarly review of the logic of Chinese politics.

Author : Nancy Faber,Randall Faber
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781616773458

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BigTime Piano Music from China - Level 4 by Nancy Faber,Randall Faber Pdf

(Faber Piano Adventures ). BigTime Piano Music from China is a striking selection of original Chinese compositions perfect for intermediate students (Level 4 and above). Thematically, the music explores a veritable zoo of animals from the real-life panda to the mythical dragon, in addition to traveling the rolling hills of a shepherd and playing a lighthearted game of hide and seek. Colorful introductory notes, vital performance tips, and analytical theory questions aid the student's musical journey, while duet improvisations and a composition exercise provide creative play. Songs include: Dragon Lantern Dance * The Giraffe * Hide and Seek * The Little Monkey * Little Monkey on a Bicycle * The Panda * The Peacock * Shepherd's Song.