Title:
Locating East Asia in Western art music
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Yayoi Uno Everett and Frederick Lau.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2004.
Physical Description:
xx, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780819566614
9780819566621
Series:
Series Title:
Music/culture
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-304) and index.
Contents:
Intercultural synthesis in postwar Western art music : historical contexts, perspectives, and taxonomy / Yayoi Uno Everett -- Fusion or fission : the paradox and politics of contemporary Chinese avant-garde music / Frederick Lau -- The cultural politics of Japan's modern music : nostalgia, nationalism, and identity in the interwar years / Judith Ann Herd -- Two practices confused in one composition : Tan Dun's Symphony 1997 : heaven, earth, man / Yu Siu Wah -- John Zorn and the postmodern condition / Ellie M. Hisama -- Music from the right : the politics of Toshirō Mayuzumi's Essay for string orchestra / Steven Nuss -- Henry Cowell and his Chinese music heritage : theory of sliding tone and his orchestral work of 1953-1965 / Nancy Yunhwa Rao -- The evolution of Chou Wen-chung's variable modes / Eric Lai -- Musical syncretism in Isang Yun's Gasa / Jeongmee Kim -- Contemporary Japanese music : a lecture by John Cage / edited by Fredric Lieberman -- Tōru Takemitsu, on sawari / translated and annotated by Hugh De Ferranti and Yayoi Uno Everett -- Wenren and culture / Chou Wen-chung.