A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng by Silverberg, Ann L.

A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng

A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng traces the twentieth- and twenty-first-century development of an important Chinese...
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Author: Ann L. Silverberg
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Language: English
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A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng by Silverberg, Ann L.

A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng

$339.75

A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng

$339.75
Author: Ann L. Silverberg
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng traces the twentieth- and twenty-first-century development of an important Chinese musical instrument in greater China.The zheng was transformed over the course of the twentieth century, becoming a solo instrument with virtuosic capacity. In the past, the zheng had appeared in small instrumental ensembles and supplied improvised accompaniments to song. Zheng music became a means of nation-building and was eventually promoted as a marker of Chinese identity in Hong Kong. Ann L. Silverberg uses evidence from the greater China area to show how the narrative history of the zheng created on the mainland did not represent zheng music as it had been in the past. Silverberg ultimately argues that the zheng's older repertory was poorly represented by efforts to collect and promote zheng music in the twentieth century. This book contends that the restored "traditional Chinese music" created and promulgated from the 1920s forward--and solo zheng music in particular--is a hybrid of "Chinese essence, Western means" that essentially obscures rather than reveals tradition.

Author: Ann L. Silverberg
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 12/15/2022
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9789888754342

About the Author
Ann L. Silverberg is a professor of musicology and ethnomusicology at Austin Peay State University in the United States.


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