Locating East Asia in Western art music

Author(s)

• Everett, Yayoi Uno
• Lau, Frederick

Bibliographic Information

Locating East Asia in Western art music

edited by Yayoi Uno Everett and Frederick Lau

Wesleyan University Press, c2004

• : pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-304) and index

Contents of Works

• Intercultural synthesis in postwar Western art music : historical contexts, perspectives, and taxonomy
• Fusion or fission : the paradox and politics of contemporary Chinese avant-garde music
• The cultural politics of Japan's modern music : nostalgia, nationalism, and identity in the interwar years
• Two practices confused in one composition : Tan Dun's Symphony 1997 : heaven, earth, man
• John Zorn and the postmodern condition
• Music from the right : the politics of Toshirō Mayuzumi's Essay for string orchestra
• Henry Cowell and his Chinese music heritage : theory of sliding tone and his orchestral work of 1953-1965
• The evolution of Chou Wen-chung's variable modes
• Musical syncretism in Isang Yun's Gasa
• Contemporary Japanese music : a lecture by John Cage
• Tōru Takemitsu, on sawari
• Wenren and culture

Details

• NCID: BA67344735
• ISBN:
  • 0819566616
  • 0819566624
• LCCN: 2003019186
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Middletown, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 321 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : ML330
  • DC22 : 781.6/8169
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Music -- East Asia -- Western influences
  • LCSH : Music -- East Asia -- 20th century -- History and criticism