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Music as Mao's Weapon
China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) produced propaganda music
that still stirs unease and, at times, evokes nostalgia. Lei X.
Ouyang uses selections from revolutionary songbooks to untangle the
complex interactions between memory, trauma, and generational
imprinting among those who survived the period of extremes.
Interviews combine with ethnographic fieldwork and surveys to
explore both the Cultural Revolution's effect on those who lived
through it as children and contemporary remembrance of the music
created to serve the Maoist regime. As Ouyang shows, the
weaponization of music served an ideological revolution but also
revolutionized the senses. She examines essential questions raised
by this phenomenon, including: What did the revolutionization look,
sound, and feel like? What does it take for individuals and groups
to engage with such music? And what is the impact of such an
experience over time?
Perceptive and provocative, Music as Mao's Weapon is an
insightful look at the exploitation and manipulation of the arts
under authoritarianism.
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Pianos and Politics in China
During the Cultural Revolution the piano, the musical embodiment of Western culture, became the object of intense hostility. This book examines the evolution of China's ever-changing disposition towards European music and Western influences generally.
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China's new voices : popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997
This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, China's New Voices shows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music, combined with new technologies and the new market economy, have enabled marginalized groups to achieve a new public voice that is often independent of the state. Nimrod Baranovitch analyzes this phenomenon by focusing on three important contexts: ethnicity, gender, and state politics. His study is a fascinating look at the relationship between popular music in China and broad cultural, social, and political changes that are taking place there. Baranovitch's sources include formal interviews and conversations conducted with some of China's most prominent rock and pop musicians and music critics, with ordinary people who provide lay perspectives on popular music culture, and with others involved in the music industry and in academia. Baranovitch also observed recording sessions, concerts, and dance parties, and draws upon TV broadcasts and many publications in Chinese about popular music. keywords: Ethnicity Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.
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TRADITION REVIVAL WITH SOCIALIST CHARACTERISTICS: PROPAGANDA STORYTELLING TURNED SPIRITUAL SERVICE IN RURAL YAN'AN
The ways in which ex-socialist cultural practitioners have opened up a quasi-religious space for rural villagers to express their new needs and communal concerns are discussed. The revival of such traditions remains connected to the socialist past, while at the same time responding to agrarian change and translocal conditions in the rural communities of Yan’an currently.
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