Flying Dragons Flowing Streams
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Flying Dragons Flowing Streams
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Author : Ronald Riddle
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1983-03-04
Flying Dragons Flowing Streams written by Ronald Riddle and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-03-04 with Music categories.
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Author : Rulan Chao Pian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983*
Review Flying Dragons Flowing Streams written by Rulan Chao Pian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983* with Chinese Americans categories.
A book review on "Flying dragons, flowing streams" written by Ronald Riddle, Greenwood Press, 1983.
Flying Dragons Flowing Streams
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Author : Ronald Riddle
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1983-03-04
Flying Dragons Flowing Streams written by Ronald Riddle and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-03-04 with Music categories.
Hong Kong Cinema
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Author : Law Kar
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2004
Hong Kong Cinema written by Law Kar and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Performing Arts categories.
Starting with the first "Western shadow plays" shown in the late 1890s, motion pictures have played a significant role in China's cultural existence for more than a century. Initially centered in Shanghai, Chinese cinema boomed in Hong Kong in the 1930s, aided by the advent of talkies and the influx of talent and investment from mainland China, Southeast Asia, and America. From the late 1940s, the territory supplanted Shanghai as the "Hollywood of China." In Hong Kong Cinema: A Cross-Cultural View, authors Law Kar and Frank Bren follow the story from Hong Kong's early silent, Chuang Tsi Tests His Wife, through the martial arts craze of the 1970s, to the medium's continued appeal to contemporary international audiences. Rather than provide a sweeping history, the authors focus on the impact of individual personalities, particularly local filmmakers and movie stars. They also consider Eastern and Western influences and examine major developments, including the changing role of women. By profiling key figures and events of the 20th century, this overview is the perfect introduction for anyone interested in Hong Kong's contribution to world cinema. Illustrated with photos.
Claiming Diaspora
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Author : Su Zheng
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-10-25
Claiming Diaspora written by Su Zheng and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-25 with Music categories.
Framed by a century and a half of racialized Chinese American musical experiences, Claiming Diaspora explores the thriving contemporary musical culture of Asian/Chinese America. Ranging from traditional operas to modern instrumental music, from ethnic media networks to popular music, from Asian American jazz to the work of recent avant-garde composers, author Su Zheng reveals the rich and diverse musical activities among Chinese Americans and tells of the struggles of Chinese Americans to gain a foothold in the American cultural terrain. She not only tells their stories, but also examines the dynamics of the diasporic connections of this musical culture, revealing how Chinese American musical activities both reflect and contribute to local, national, and transnational cultural politics, and challenging us to take a fresh look at the increasingly plural and complex nature of American cultural identity.
Extreme Exoticism
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Author : William Anthony Sheppard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
Extreme Exoticism written by William Anthony Sheppard and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Music categories.
To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies--of both desire and repulsion--through which Japanese culture has profoundly impacted the arts and industry of the U.S. While the influence of Japan on American and European painting, architecture, design, theater, and literature has been celebrated in numerous books and exhibitions, the role of music has been virtually ignored until now. W. Anthony Sheppard's Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music's role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life. Presenting numerous American encounters with and representations of Japanese music and Japan, this book reveals how music functions in exotic representation across a variety of genres and media, and how Japanese music has at various times served as a sign of modernist experimentation, a sounding board for defining American music, and a tool for reshaping conceptions of race and gender. From the Tin Pan Alley songs of the Russo-Japanese war period to Weezer's Pinkerton album, music has continued to inscribe Japan as the land of extreme exoticism.
In Search Of A Voice
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Author : Casey M.K. Lum
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
In Search Of A Voice written by Casey M.K. Lum and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Social Science categories.
Originating in Japan early in the 1970s as a simple sing-along technology, karaoke has become a hybrid media form designed to integrate mass-mediated popular music, video images, computer graphics, and the live musical performance of its human users. Not only has karaoke become a multimillion-dollar entertainment industry, its varied uses have also evolved into diverse popular cultural and social practices among many people around the world. Based on a two-year ethnographic study, this book offers a penetrating analysis of how karaoke is used in the expression, maintenance, and (re)construction of social identity as part of the Chinese American experience. It also explores the theoretical implications of interaction between the media audience and karaoke as both an electronic communication technology and a cultural practice. This book analyzes the social origins of karaoke and the dramaturgical characteristics of karaoke events, and explains how various musical genres are reframed as karaoke music. It also visits the numerous karaoke scenes in their natural context -- the sites of the actual consumption of media products, such as expensive private homes and fancy hotel ballrooms in the affluent suburbs of New Jersey, working-class restaurants and nightclubs in the multiethnic neighborhoods in Flushing, Queens, and Cantonese opera music clubs in New York's Chinatown. Finally, the book offers an intimate analysis of how karaoke has been adopted by several interpretive communities of first-generation Chinese immigrants not only as popular entertainment but also as a means to help (re)define their social identity and way of life.
China And The West
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Author : Hon-Lun Yang
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-03
China And The West written by Hon-Lun Yang and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03 with Music categories.
A groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume exploring the phenomenon of the "Westernization" of contemporary Chinese music
Chinese American Death Rituals
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Author : Sue Fawn Chung
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2005-09-15
Chinese American Death Rituals written by Sue Fawn Chung and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-15 with History categories.
Death is a topic that has fascinated people for centuries. In the English-speaking world, eulogies in poetic form could be traced back to the 1640s, but gained prominence with the 'graveyard school' of poets in the eighteenth century often stressing the finality of death. Chinese American Death Rituals examines Chinese American funerary rituals and cemeteries from the late nineteenth century until the present in order to understand the importance of Chinese funerary rites and their transformation through time. The authors in this volume discuss the meaning of funerary rituals and their normative dimension and the social practices that have been influenced by tradition. Shaped by individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment, Chinese Americans have resolved the tensions between assimilation into the mainstream culture and their strong Chinese heritage in a variety of ways. This volume expertly describes and analyzes Chinese American cultural retention and transformation in rituals after death.
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Author : Bell Yung
language : en
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Release Date : 2010
written by Bell Yung and has been published by Chinese University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Drama categories.
Nonetheless, the most memorable feature of the volume as a whole is the tragic, yet transcendent, story of the star-crossed couple. It is a tale fraught with love and loyalty, piety and pathos, one which anyone who reads will not easily forget." VICTOR H. MAIR, University of Pennsylvania --