Found inside – Page 324This book analyzes the Cultural Revolution through the conflict between innovation and a top-down enforcement of modernity. Basic Chinese introduces the essentials of Chinese syntax. In Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China, Levi S. Gibbs examines the life and performances of “Folksong King of Western China” Wang Xiangrong (b. 1952) and explores how itinerant performers come to serve ... Found inside – Page 1The volume is organized to promote a thorough understanding of Chinese grammar. It offers a stimulating analysis of the complexities of the language and provides full and clear explanations. This book is a story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation. Originally published in 1936, this book presents a discussion regarding the modality of ancient Greek music, using literary evidence supplemented by surviving melodies. In the Confucian tradition, human morality and the personal realization it inspires are grounded in the cultivation of family feeling. The author, daughter of the mayor of Peking, recounts her childhood growing up in pre-revolutionary China However, in the humanities in general, it is still viewed with suspicion. This collection examines the ideas of essence and context as they apply to music. Destroyed and looted in 1860 by Western forces, it is today only partially restored. Using images, maps, and color-plates, this book reveals the philosophical, political, and artistic concepts that the gardens represented. Found insideThis book explores the mutual influence of literary and classicizing approaches, which frequently and fruitfully borrowed from one another. Based on ethnographic research that author Kisliuk conducted from 1986 through 1995, this book describes BaAka songs, drum rhythms, and dance movements--and their immediate, interactive contexts--in an elegantly written narrative ... Found insideThis book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experience. The work represented here is a clear assembly of perspectives and methodology of these disciplines from the viewpoint of performanceartistic action and artistic event. Through close attention to everyday lives and narratives and with a particular focus on gender, market, and spatial practices, this collection stresses that, in the case of China, rural life and the impact of socialism must be considered in ... Found insideBringing together the most recent research on the Cultural Revolution in China, musicologists, historians, literary scholars, and others discuss the music and its political implications. The analytical approach adopted in this text focusing on the communities of kwaya is one frequently used in the fields of ethnomusicology, religious studies, culture studies, and philosophy for understanding diversified social processes ... Ranging from the Roman Empire to the fall of the Berlin Wall, an illustrated, one-volume overview of the past two thousand years of German history relates the country's political transformations and wars to the lives of its ordinary people ... The first English collection of translated essays, by Chinese literary scholars, writers, and critics, this volume focuses on the legacy of socialist culture and post-socialist phenomena within the context of capitalist globalization. The last chapter considers the global influence" --Book Jacket. This collection brings together cultural studies and pop music accounts of metal around the world, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Brazil, Malta, Slovenia, China, Japan, Norway, Israel, Easter Island, and more. Profiles of artists and performers from around the world form the basis of this innovative volume that explores the many ways individuals engage with, carry on, revive, and create tradition. By examining youth cultures around three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - this book argues that present-day youth culture in China has both international and local roots. The Daoist canon is the definitive fifteenth century compilation of texts, however many of these texts are undated and anonymous. Annotation A Paradise Lost is the first comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex in a Western language. Jeroen de Kloet is assistant professor at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. -- A brilliant testament to the ethnographer's art, the deeply rooted wisdom of an ordinary person, and the complex ways in which folklore figures in everyday life along the Irish border. CD contains musical excerpts referenced in the text. A splendid essay collection focusing on ordinary people in the chaotic post-emperor, pre-Communist period of China's history. " "This new paperback edition features a CD offering examples of the myth telling, speeches, and singing discussed, as well as a new afterword that describes the continuing use of music by the Suya in their recent conflicts with cattle ... The book spans the 20th century, focusing on a number of key elements, including the changing image of women and the rise of the martial arts film. They included ballad medleys, comic farces, Yuan music dramas, Ming music dramas, and the novel Shuihu zhuan. The Japanese scholars who first dedicated themselves to study these works in the mid-twentieth century were considered daring. Found insideIn this book, Berliner provides insight into the communities of study, performance, and worship that surround mbira. Following Tradition is an expansive examination of the history of tradition—"one of the most common as well as most contested terms in English language usage"—in Americans' thinking and discourse about culture. Found insideIlluminates how one folktale serves as a living record of the evolving cultures and relationships of China and Korea Found inside – Page iThis book creates a platform for music educators to share their experience and expertise in creative music teaching and learning with the international community. 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Found insideThinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present, including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's groups. Found inside – Page iThis detailed study of the modern Chinese police force shows how the Nationalist forces under General Chiang Kai-shek set about to return Shanghai to Chinese rule, competing with the consular police forces of France, Japan and the ... This book focuses on the rapidly changing sociology of music as manifested in Chinese society and Chinese education. Gregory Barz shows how music can be both a mode of promoting health and a force for personal therapy, presenting a cultural analysis of hope and healing. The acclaimed actress and legendary singer, Yamaguchi Yoshiko (aka Li Xianglan, 1920-2014), emerged from Japan-occupied Manchuria to become a transnational star during the Second Sino-Japanese war. 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