The Oxford handbook of music in China and the Chinese diaspora / edited by Yu Hui and Jonathan P.J. Stock.
| Other author/creator | Hui, Yu (Ethnomusicologist) |
| Other author/creator | Stock, Jonathan P. J., 1963- |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023. |
| Description | xx, 541 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Music |
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| Series | Oxford handbooks series |
| Contents | Introduction. Frames of Reference for the Study of Music in China and Its Diaspora / Yu Hui and Jonathan P.J. Stock -- PART I. NEW DIRECTIONS IN HISTORY AND THEORY. Musical Archaeology and the Prehistory of Chinese Music / Yang Yuanzheng ; Theorizing "Natural Sound" : Ancient Chinese Music Theory and Its Contemporary Applications in the Study of Guqin Intonation / Yu Hui and Chen Yingshi ; The Huxuan and Huteng Dances : Foreign Musical Dances in Chinese History / Zhao Weiping ; Kunqu from Analytical Perspectives : A Focus on "Feng ru song" / Kar Lun Alan Lau ; Why and How do Chinese Sing Shijing Songs? / Joseph S.C. Lam ; Music History and Historiography in the Chinese Context / Hon-Lun Helan Yang ; Chinese Music Modernities / Frederick Lau -- |
| Contents | PART II. MUSIC GENRES AND PRACTICES IN EVOLVING CONTEXTS. Traditional Instruments and Heterophonic Practice / Alan R. Thrasher ; Jiangnan Sizhu in the Greater Suzhou Area : Repertoire, revitalization, and Sustainability / Mercedes M. Dujunco ; Social Change and the Maintenance of Musical Tradition Among the Western Yugurs / Du Yaxiong ; The Making of a Music Community as a Manifestation of Nationalism : The Jinyu Qinshe Society in 1930s China / Yu Hui ; A Multimodal and Interdisciplinary Approach to Luo Yusheng's Video Performance of Choumo yinchu (At Break Of Day) / Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson ; The Emergence of Taiwanese New Xiqu : A Case Study on Chichiao Musical Theater / Hsieh Hsiao-Mei ; Hybridity in the Modern Chinese Orchestral Music (Guoyue) of Taiwan / Ching-Yi Chen ; Trends in the Globalization of Pipa Music / Ben Wu -- |
| Contents | PART III. CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY SETTINGS. Humanism in Red : A New Mainstream Narrative in the Pop Songs of 1980s China / Lijuan Qian ; Staging Race and Sexuality Across Borders : Marketing Pop Singer Coco Lee / Grace Wang ; Re-Imagining China's Women Pianists : Yuja Wang and Zhu Xiao-Mei / Shzr Ee Tan ; Liveness and Mediation in Chinese Art Music : From The Map to The Qingming Festival / Germán Gil-Curiel ; The Amateur and Professional in Wuhan's Park Pop / Samuel Horlor ; Minorities and the Mainstream : The Musical Place of the Non-Han Peoples in Modern China / Chuen-Fung Wong ; "Kita Anak Malaysia" ("We are the Children of Malaysia") : Performing Multicultural Chinese Identities / Tan Sooi Beng -- Conclusions : New Directions in Chinese Music Research / Jonathan P.J. Stock. |
| Abstract | "The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora comprises twenty-four chapters that collectively provide an innovative vision for Chinese music studies in the twenty-first century. Each chapter advances new research insights into a key musical genre or context in Chinese music, and each develops a theoretical model that is applicable beyond the case study in question. The volume includes significant input from researchers based in China, Taiwan, and across the Chinese diaspora, thus exemplifying a model of collaborative inquiry that prominently features diverse insider voices alongside contributions from authors variously positioned in the anglophone world. The book has three parts. In Part One, chapters explore the extensive, remarkable, and polyvocal historical legacies of Chinese music, ranging from archaeological findings to the ways we write music history, and from the interpretation and reinterpretation of enduring historical practices to the close study of emerging breakpoints that mark the rise of new cultural expressions. Specific topics addressed include music archaeology in the Chinese context, ancient Chinese music theory, the adoption of "Barbarian" dances in Chinese antiquity, the structure of kunqu opera qupai, the long tradition of Shijing songs, disputes over the writing of Hong Kong's music history, and key turning points in the rise of Chinese musical modernity. Part Two focuses on evolving practice across a spectrum of key instrumental and vocal genres. Each chapter provides a portrait of musical change, tying musical transformations to the social dimensions underpinning it. After an account of heterophony in traditional instrumental ensembles and the creation of revised repertory for such ensembles since the rise of programs of intangible cultural heritage, chapters consider changes in the field of ethnic minority folksong to guqin zither performance, and from musical theatre in Taiwan to the Chinese orchestra and to the pipa lute in the Chinese diaspora. In Part Three, authors take up prominent intersectional issues in the broad field of Chinese music studies. Several chapters are concerned with popular music cultures, exploring race and sexuality, humanism, and political aspiration, and the professional/amateur spectrum. Another looks at the interplay of liveness and mediation in contemporary art music for Western instruments. Two further chapters consider the roles music plays in creating or challenging identities among ethnic minorities within China and among overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. A final chapter systematizes the contemporary discipline of Chinese music studies as illustrated throughout the volume"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022045586 |
| ISBN | 9780190661960 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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