Composing for the Revolution : : Nie Er and China’s Sonic Nationalism /

Composing for the Revolution : : Nie Er and China’s Sonic Nationalism / / Joshua H. Howard; ed. by Frederick Lau.

In Composing for the Revolution: Nie Er and China’s Sonic Nationalism, Joshua Howard explores the role the songwriter Nie Er played in the 1930s proletarian arts movement and the process by which he became a nationalist icon. Composed only months before his untimely death in 1935, Nie Er’s last song...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
VerfasserIn:
Howard, Joshua H.,
HerausgeberIn:
Lau, Frederick,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 28 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Illustrations
  • Musical Examples
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 Growing Up in Yunnan: Emergence of a Radical Nationalist
  • CHAPTER 2 Reading Nie Er’s Diary: “I Could Be a Symbol for China”
  • CHAPTER 3 The Politics of Music: Ideological Debates and Popularization
  • CHAPTER 4 Composing for the Revolution
  • CHAPTER 5 The Making of a National Icon: Commemorating Nie Er, 1935–1949
  • CHAPTER 6 Creating the “People’s Musician”: Socialist Construction and the Film Nie Er
  • CHAPTER 7 Marketing Nie Er in Yunnan: From the “People’s Musician” to “Number One Brand”
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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