TY - BOOK AU - Yang,Hon-Lun Helan AU - Lau,Frederick AU - Mikkonen,Simo AU - Winzenburg,John TI - Networking the Russian Diaspora: Russian Musicians and Musical Activities in Interwar Shanghai T2 - Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific SN - 9780824882693 U1 - 780.899 171051 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Honolulu PB - University of Hawaii Press KW - Music KW - China KW - Shanghai KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Russians KW - History KW - MUSIC / Ethnomusicology KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION Networking the Musical Communities in Shanghai --; CHAPTER 1. Between Limbo and a Haven: The Russian Émigré Community in Shanghai --; CHAPTER 2. Networking the Diaspora: Musical Activities of the Russian Community --; CHAPTER 3. An Imperfect Musical Haven: Russian Musicians and the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra --; CHAPTER 4. Sounding Russian in a Metropolis: Russian Concerts and Soloists of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra --; CHAPTER 5. Foundations of New Chinese Music: Russian Pedagogues and Chinese Students --; CHAPTER 6. From “Folk Cure” to Catharsis: Alexander Tcherepnin and New Chinese Piano Music --; CHAPTER 7. Partnering with the Shanghai Arts Community: Aaron Avshalomov and Symphonic-Theatrical Experimentation --; EPILOGUE --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Networking the Russian Diaspora is a fascinating and timely study of interwar Shanghai. Aside from the vacated Orthodox Church in the former French Concession where most Russian émigrés resided, Shanghai today displays few signs of the bustling settlement of those years. Russian musicians established the first opera company in China, as well as choirs, bands, and ensembles, to play for their own and other communities. Russian musicians were the core of Shanghai’s lauded Municipal Orchestra and taught at China’s first conservatory. Two Russian émigré composers in particular—Alexander Tcherepnin and Aaron Avshalomov—experimented with incorporating Chinese elements into their compositions as harbingers of intercultural music that has become a well-recognized trend in composition since the late twentieth century. The Russian musical scene in Shanghai was the embodiment of musical cosmopolitanism, anticipating the hybrid nature of twenty-first-century music arising from cultural contacts through migration, globalization, and technological advancement. As a pioneering study of the Russian community, Networking the Russian Diaspora examines its musical activities and influence in Shanghai. While the focus of the book is on music, it also gives insight into the social dynamics between Russians and other Europeans on the one hand, and with the Chinese on the other. The volume, coauthored by Chinese music specialists, makes a significant contribution to studies of diaspora, cultural identity, and migration by casting light on a little-studied area of Sino-Russian cultural relations and Russian influence in modern China. The discoveries stretch the boundaries of music studies by addressing the relational aspects of Western music: how it has articulated national and cultural identities but also served to connect people of different origins and cultural backgrounds UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824882693?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824882693 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824882693/original ER -