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

by Joshua H Howard, Joshua H. Howard, Howard

Book Overview

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 last song, the "March of the Volunteers," captured the rising anti-Japanese sentiment and was selected as China's national anthem with the establishment of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824892593
• ISBN13: 9780824892593
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"