Locating East Asia in Western art music /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Everett, Yayoi Uno, Lau, Frederick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2004]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Music/culture.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.