Reading Chinese music and beyond
By: edited by Joys H. Y. Cheung ; King Chung Wong
Publisher: Chinese Civilisation Centre, City University of Hong Kong
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9789624423297
Subjects: Music; History and criticism; Composers; Musical instruments
Description: Offers guidance to understanding the Chinese cultural spaces that nurtured musical performers, listeners, composers, and commentators.
Notes: Various authors.

Includes list of Chinese dynasties and republics on p. [xiii].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction /  Joys H. Y. Cheung; title: Music of qin: from the scholar's study to the concert stage / Bell Yung; title: Pipa stories as cultural history of Chinese music / Joseph S. C. Lam; title: The making of a national musical icon: Xian Xinghai and his Yellow river cantata / Hon-Lun Yang; title: "The north wind blows": sounding bitterness in The white-haired girl, a communist political ritual / Joys H. Y. Cheung; title: Representing the minority other in Chinese music / Chuen-Fung Wong; title: Trafficking in Taiwan Aboriginal voices revisited / Nancy Guy.