Tradition and Change in the Performance of Chinese Music: An introduction to the traditional music of China's minority nationalities
Title | Tradition and Change in the Performance of Chinese Music: An introduction to the traditional music of China's minority nationalities PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Folk music |
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Tradition and Change in the Performance of Chinese Music
Title | Tradition and Change in the Performance of Chinese Music PDF eBook |
Author | Tsao Penyeh |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2013-12-19 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1136652019 |
First published in 1998. As a cultural entity of over five thousand years of history, Chinese music is a multi-faced phenomenon consisting of diverse regional and transregional traditions. Two large categories of Chinese music can be distinguished: music(s) of the Han nationality and music(s) of the ethnic nationalities. The present volume brings together ten articles written largely by native scholars, with the general aim of presenting a dialogue about Chinese music from 'insider's' view-points.
Tradition and Change in the Performance of Chinese Music
Title | Tradition and Change in the Performance of Chinese Music PDF eBook |
Author | Tsao Penyeh |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9789057550416 |
More than five thousand years of rich cultural history have made Chinese music an immensely sophisticated, multi-faceted artistic phenomenon that consists of diverse regional and transregional traditions. The present volumes bring together ten articles written mainly by native scholars, with the general aim of introducing a dialogue about Chinese music from the viewpoint of the insider.
Tradition & Change Performance
Title | Tradition & Change Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Tsao Penyeh |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1135293384 |
More than five thousand years of rich cultural history have made Chinese music an immensely sophisticated, multi-faceted artistic phenomenon that consists of diverse regional and transregional traditions. The present volumes bring together ten articles written mainly by native scholars, with the general aim of introducing a dialogue about Chinese music from the viewpoint of the insider.
Tradition and Change in the Performance of Chinese Music
Title | Tradition and Change in the Performance of Chinese Music PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Folk music |
ISBN |
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts
Title | Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Levi S. Gibbs |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2020-02-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0253045843 |
Case studies examining the individual’s role in how traditional Chinese performing arts like music and dance are represented, maintained, and cultivated. Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts examines the key role of the individual in the development of traditional Chinese performing arts such as music and dance. These artists and their artistic works—the “faces of tradition” —come to represent and reconfigure broader fields of cultural production in China today. The contributors to this volume explore the ways in which performances and recordings, including singing competitions, textual anthologies, ethnographic videos, and CD albums, serve as discursive spaces where individuals engage with and redefine larger traditions and themselves. By focusing on the performance, scholarship, collection, and teaching of instrumental music, folksong, and classical dance from a variety of disciplines—these case studies highlight the importance of the individual in determining how traditions have been and are represented, maintained, and cultivated. “Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts [examines] the dynamic relationship between individual representatives of tradition and the evolution of the traditions themselves.” —A. C. Shahriari, Kent State University, Choice
Music in China
Title | Music in China PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Lau |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Music |
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Music in China is one of many case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional materials to accompany each study. Music in China offers a unique exploration of the rich, dynamic, and multifaceted Chinese musical landscape. In contrast with previous scholarship--which focused almost exclusively on the role of music in elite culture--this volume takes a balanced look at a variety of traditional and modern genres, including those performed among local and regional folk musicians, in academia, in the media, and on concert stages both inside and outside of China. Using the interrelated themes of identity, modernization, and ideology as a narrative framework, author Frederick Lau discusses the musical features of the selected genres, the processes through which they came into existence, and related socio-political issues. 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. Enhanced by eyewitness accounts of local performances, interviews with key performers, vivid illustrations, and hands-on listening activities, Music in China provides an accessible and engaging introduction to Chinese music. It is packaged with an 80-minute audio CD containing examples of the music discussed in the book.