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A Critical History of New Music in China Liu Ching-Chih ; translated by Caroline Mason

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"With no direct ties to traditional Chinese music, New Music reflects the compositional techniques and musical idioms of eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European styles. Liu traces the genesis and development of New Music throughout the twentieth century, deftly examining the cultural, social, and political forces that shaped New Music and its uses by politicians and the government."--[book cover]

Title A Critical History of New Music in China Liu Ching-Chih
translated by Caroline Mason.
Publisher Hong Kong : Chinese University Press
Manufacture Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE
Creation Date 2010
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text in English translated from Chinese.
Content Introduction: New music in China and its theoretical foundations -- The origins of new music (1885-1919): the westernisation of military music and the birth of schoolsong -- New music in the May fourth period (1919-1937) -- The mass singing movement and musical creation in the anti-Japanese war period (1937-1945) -- New music education and creation during the Civil War (1946-1949) and in the seventeen years after the founding of the People's Republic of China (1949-1966) -- Yangbanxi and the music of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1979): revolutionary modern Peking opera, ballet, symphonic music and songs -- Musical creation after the Cultural Revolution and New Wave music -- New music and composers in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao -- Review and reflection: historical review (1885-1985) and the Sinicisation and modernisation of new music -- New development (1996-2006): mainland China, overseas, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Extent 1 online resource (xxi, 911 p., [24] p. of plates :) ill., music, ports.

Language English
Copyright Date ©2010.
National Library system number 997010703601705171
MARC RECORDS
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