East Meets West: Nationalistic Elements in Selected Piano Solo Works of Chen Yi
Description:
Since the founding of "New China" in 1949, the musical culture has undergone numerous periods of identity crisis, particularly during the ten-year "Cultural Revolution," due to the fact that music had always been used to serve the needs of political propaganda. Even the development of a "National Style" encouraged by the central government was a political "brainchild" under the socialist ideology. Nevertheless, professional musicians struggled to create a new path in musical composition while w…
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Date:
August 2001
Creator:
Li, Songwen
Partner:
UNT Libraries