A Critical History of New Music in China
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A Critical History of New Music in China

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A Critical History of New Music in China

About this book

By the end of the nineteenth century, Chinese culture had fallen into a stasis, and intellectuals began to go abroad for new ideas. What emerged was an exciting musical genre that C. C. Liu terms "new music." With no direct ties to traditional Chinese music, "new music" reflects the compositional techniques and musical idioms of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European styles. Liu traces the genesis and development of "new music" throughout the twentieth century, deftly examining the social and political forces that shaped "new music" and its uses by political activists and the government.

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Table of contents

  1. Half title page
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Musical Examples
  6. List of Plates
  7. Translator’s Note
  8. Frontispiece
  9. Prologue
  10. 1. Introduction: New Music in China and Its Theoretical Foundations
  11. 2. The Origins of New Music (1885–1919): The Westernisation of Military Music and the Birth of Schoolsong
  12. 3. New Music in the May Fourth Period (1919–1937)
  13. 4. The Mass Singing Movement and Musical Creation in the Anti-Japanese War Period (1937–1945)
  14. 5. New Music Education and Creation during the Civil War (1946–1949) and in the Seventeen Years after the Founding of the People’s Republic of China (1949–1966)
  15. Chapter 6. Yangbanxi and the Music of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976): Revolutionary Modern Peking Opera, Ballet, Symphonic Music and Songs
  16. 7. Musical Creation after the Cultural Revolution and New Wave Music
  17. 8. New Music and Composers in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao
  18. 9. Review and Reflection: Historical Review (1885–1985) and the Sinicisation and Modernisation of New Music
  19. 10. New Development (1996–2006): Mainland China, Overseas, Taiwan and Hong Kong
  20. Epilogue
  21. Notes
  22. Appendix i
  23. Appendix ii
  24. Appendix iii
  25. References
  26. Glossary
  27. Chart I
  28. Chart II
  29. Index of Names
  30. Index of Subjects