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156 Ethnomusicoiogy, Winter 2009. Music in China: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. Frederick. Lau. 2008. New York: Oxford University Press, xxvi, 182 pp., photographs, map, music examples, glossary, references, resource list, bibliography, index. Accompanying CD.Paper, $21.95.
Nov 14, 2007 · Lau draws on his own extensive fieldwork and performance experience in both mainland China and its diasporic communities to show how the ever-changing Chinese musical tradition takes on particular meanings in China, in overseas Chinese communities, and in diverse international settings.
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questions: What is Chinese music? What are the criteria for defining Chinese music? Lau tries to answer these questions by examining various dimensions of Chinese music, especially the close relationship between musical practice and China's changing social environment. He has explained throughout all
May 19, 2023 · Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-170) and index. Music of the people -- Constructing national music -- Regional musics with the national soundscape -- Musical interfaces between east and west -- Music and ideology -- Chinese music beyond China. Access-restricted-item.
Oct 23, 2023 · This chapter examines the formation and logic of modern Chinese music in the early twentieth century, when China began to adopt Western knowledge, science, and technology to modernize its culture. It focuses on five groundbreaking musical moments of modernist formation that have produced long-lasting effects.
He has conducted ethnographic field research in the PRC, Thailand, Singapore, and Hawai`i, and has published widely on traditional Chinese music, music and politics, music and nationalism, Chinese music in the diaspora, as well as issues related to 20th century Western music.
Lau draws on his own extensive fieldwork and performance experience in both mainland China and its diasporic communities to show how the ever-changing Chinese musical traditiontakes on...
