Dangerous Tunes: The Politics of Chinese Music in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of China Since 1949

by Barbara Mittler

Barbara Mittler's book is the first comprehensive monographic study of China's New Music written in a Western language. It deals with two key points of contention: the effects of politics on the development of Chinese New Music, and the importance of China's indigenous musical traditions for the development of her New Music. In many ways, it is a handbook to New Chinese Music as it provides biographical and musicological sketches of the greater number...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447039205
• ISBN13: 9783447039208
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 2.17 lbs.