China and the West : Music, Representation, and Reception / / edited by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle.

China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception is the first book to explore how Chinese and Western musical materials and traditions-those involving instruments, melodies, rhythms, staged diversions (including operas and musical comedies), concert works, film scores, and digital recordings...

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Place / Publishing House:Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2017.
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (328 pages)
Notes:This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
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Table of Contents:
  • Music, China, and the West: a musical-theoretical introduction / Hon-Lun Yang
  • The pipe organ of the Baroque era in China / David Francis Urrows
  • From colonial modernity to global identity: the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra / Hon-Lun Yang
  • Calafati, Sou-Chong, Lang Lang, and Li Wei: two hundred years of "the Chinese" in Austrian music, drama, and film / Cornelia Szabâo-Knotik
  • Eastern fantasies on Western stages: Chinese-themed operettas and musical comedies in turn-of-the-last-century London and New York / Michael Saffle
  • The many lives of Flower drum song (1957-2002): negotiating Chinese American identity in print, on stage, and on screen / James Deaville
  • Deterritorializing spirituality: intercultural encounters in Iron road / Mary Ingraham
  • Chinese opera percussion from model opera to Tan Dun / Nancy Yunhwa Rao
  • Spanning the timbral divide: insiders, outsiders, and novelty in Chinese-Western fusion concertos / John Winzenburg
  • Combinations of the familiar and the strange: aspects of Asian-Dutch encounters in recent music history / Emile Wennekes
  • The Shanghai Quartet's Chinasong: a musical counterpart to English-language cultural revolution memoirs? / Eric Hung
  • Contested imaginaries of collective harmony: the poetics and politics of "silk road" nostalgia in China and the West / Harm Langenkamp
  • When a great nation emerges: Chinese music in the world / Frederick Lau
  • A postscript / Michael Saffle.