Locating East Asia in Western art music
By: edited by Yayoi Uno Everett and Frederick Lau
Contributors: Everett, Yayoi Uno; Lau, Frederick
Edition: 1st ed
Series: Music/culture
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press; Brand: Wesleyan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Music -- East Asia -- Western influences; Music -- East Asia -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-304) and index
Table of contents: title: Intercultural synthesis in postwar Western art music :   historical contexts, perspectives, and taxonomy; title: Fusion or fission : the paradox and politics of contemporary Chinese avant-garde music; title: The cultural politics of Japan's modern music : nostalgia, nationalism, and identity in the interwar years; title: Two practices confused in one composition : Tan Dun's Symphony 1997 : heaven, earth, man; title: John Zorn and the postmodern condition; title: Music from the right : the politics of Toshirō Mayuzumi's Essay for string orchestra; title: Henry Cowell and his Chinese music heritage : theory of sliding tone and his orchestral work of 1953/1965; title: The evolution of Chou Wen-chung's variable modes; title: Musical syncretism in Isang Yun's Gasa; title: Contemporary Japanese music : a lecture by John Cage; title: Tōru Takemitsu, On sawari; title: Wenren and culture