Jazz in China : From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression /

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"Is there jazz in China? This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the history of jazz in China. Marlow traces China's introduction to jazz in the early 1920s, its interruption by Chinese leadership under Mao in 1949, and its rejuvenation in the early 1980...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marlow, Eugene (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Music > Western influences.
Manners and customs.
Jazz musicians.
Jazz.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Musiciens de jazz > Chine.
Music > China > Western influences.
Jazz musicians > China.
Jazz > China > History and criticism.
China.
Chine > Moeurs et coutumes.
China > Social life and customs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • China: east is east
  • The Opium Wars
  • The influence of early twentieth-century technology
  • Shanghai in the 1920s-1930s: the joint was jumpin
  • International jazz musicians flock to Shanghai: 1920s-1930s
  • The formation of all-Chinese jazz bands
  • The Japanese invasion
  • Jazz and individual freedom of expression
  • The influence of mid-twentieth-century technologies on the expansion of jazz in China
  • First a trickle, then a flood: jazz musicians perform in China from all over
  • Martin Fleischer, godfather of jazz, and Liu Yuan, so-called father of jazz in early post-Mao Beijing
  • Liu Sola: China's musically eclectic composer
  • The Beijing jazz scene
  • Beijing's leading indigenous and expat jazz musicians
  • Shanghai's jazz venues
  • Shanghai's leading indigenous & expat jazz musicians
  • Jazz education in China
  • Jazz in China in the twenty-first century.

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