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Richard Curt Kraus

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Description:In China, a nation where the worlds of politics and art are closely linked, Western classical music was considered during the cultural revolution to be an imperialist intrusion, in direct conflict with the native aesthetic. In this revealing chronicle of the relationship between music and politics in twentieth-century China, Richard Kraus examines the evolution of China's ever-changing disposition towards European music and demonstrates the steady westernization of Chinese music. Placing China's cultural conflicts in global perspective, he traces the lives of four Chinese musicians and reflects on how their experiences are indicative of China's place at the furthest edge of an expanding Western international order."The book is so artfully composed that its many lives provide not only a rare glimpse of the life-styles of China's privileged set but also a relatively full picture of the Chinese politics of music from 1949 to the present."--Journal of Asian Studies"Deserves to become a classic....Masterful and engrossing."--Musical Times"This provocative, informative, and well-written book is likely to offend and infuriate a variety of readers, a prospect which, I suspect, would delight the author....The reader is totally engaged, at times nodding appreciatively at a particularly revealing insight, chuckling over a well-turned ironic phrase, or vigorously disagreeing with an example of rhetorical overkill. As one of the very few systematic attempts to examine the politics of culture in China, firmly rooted in Chinese-language sources, this book deserves a wide audience."--Journal of Politics"Provides rich, and unique, material for historians of China's longrevolutionary process as he explores the intricacies of changing Communist party cultural policy and the intricacies of changing Communist party cultural policy and the intimate details of factional infighting as revealed in the world of music....For enhancing our understanding of the patterns of cultural interaction in an increasingly global history, historians can only be grateful to Kraus."--American Historical Review"A pleasure to read, and both those interested in China and students of the politics of the arts more generally will profit from it."--Contemporary SociologyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle Over Western Music. To get started finding Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle Over Western Music, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 317

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: 1989

ISBN: 0195363264

Description: In China, a nation where the worlds of politics and art are closely linked, Western classical music was considered during the cultural revolution to be an imperialist intrusion, in direct conflict with the native aesthetic. In this revealing chronicle of the relationship between music and politics in twentieth-century China, Richard Kraus examines the evolution of China's ever-changing disposition towards European music and demonstrates the steady westernization of Chinese music. Placing China's cultural conflicts in global perspective, he traces the lives of four Chinese musicians and reflects on how their experiences are indicative of China's place at the furthest edge of an expanding Western international order."The book is so artfully composed that its many lives provide not only a rare glimpse of the life-styles of China's privileged set but also a relatively full picture of the Chinese politics of music from 1949 to the present."--Journal of Asian Studies"Deserves to become a classic....Masterful and engrossing."--Musical Times"This provocative, informative, and well-written book is likely to offend and infuriate a variety of readers, a prospect which, I suspect, would delight the author....The reader is totally engaged, at times nodding appreciatively at a particularly revealing insight, chuckling over a well-turned ironic phrase, or vigorously disagreeing with an example of rhetorical overkill. As one of the very few systematic attempts to examine the politics of culture in China, firmly rooted in Chinese-language sources, this book deserves a wide audience."--Journal of Politics"Provides rich, and unique, material for historians of China's longrevolutionary process as he explores the intricacies of changing Communist party cultural policy and the intricacies of changing Communist party cultural policy and the intimate details of factional infighting as revealed in the world of music....For enhancing our understanding of the patterns of cultural interaction in an increasingly global history, historians can only be grateful to Kraus."--American Historical Review"A pleasure to read, and both those interested in China and students of the politics of the arts more generally will profit from it."--Contemporary SociologyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle Over Western Music. To get started finding Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle Over Western Music, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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