Composing for the Revolution : Nie Er and China's Sonic Nationalism /

Composing for the Revolution : Nie Er and China's Sonic Nationalism /

In Composing for the Revolution: Nie Er and China's Sonic Nationalism, Joshua Howard explores the role the songwriter Nie Er played in the 1930s proletarian arts movement and the process by which he became a nationalist icon. Composed only months before his untimely death in 1935, Nie Er's...

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Main Author: Howard, Joshua H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2021]
Series:Music and performing arts of Asia and the Pacific.
Subjects:
Nie, Er, > 1912-1935.
1900-1999
Composers > China > Biography.
Nationalism > China > History > 20th century.
National songs > China > History and criticism.
Composers.
National songs.
Nationalism.
China.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Growing Up in Yunnan: Emergence of a Radical Nationalist
  • Reading Nie Er's Diary: "I Could Be a Symbol for China"
  • The Politics of Music: Ideological Debates and Popularization
  • Composing for the Revolution
  • The Making of a National Icon: Commemorating Nie Er, 1935-1949
  • Creating the "People's Musician": Socialist Construction and the Film Nie Er
  • Marketing Nie Er in Yunnan: From the "People's Musician" to "Number One Brand".

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