Jones Yellow Music

Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8043-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

The distribution of the gramophone and the birth of popular music, including jazz, as a part of nation-building and modernity in China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Andrew F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Weltmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Listening to Jazz Age China 1

1. The Orchestration of Chinese Musical Life 21

2. The Gramophone in China 53

3. The Yellow Music of Li Jinhui 73

4. Mass Music and the Politics of Phonographic Realism 105

Glossary 137

Notes 147

Bibliography 183

Index 207

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew F. Jones is Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music.