000			05221nam a2200541 454500
001			204358
003			IT-RoAPU
005			20250106150525.0
006			m|||||o||d||||||||
007			cr || ||||||||
008			240625t20202021hiu fo d z eng d
020			_a9780824885731 _qPDF
024	7		_a10.1515/9780824885731 _2doi
035			_a(DE-B1597)9780824885731
035			_a(DE-B1597)541898
035			_a(OCoLC)1202470258
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aML410.N594 _b.H693 2021
072		7	_aMUS015000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a780.924 _223
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aHoward, Joshua H. _eautore
245	1	0	_aComposing for the Revolution : _bNie Er and China’s Sonic Nationalism / _cJoshua H. Howard; ed. by Frederick Lau.
264		1	_aHonolulu : _bUniversity of Hawaii Press, _c[2020]
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a1 online resource (292 p.) : _b28 b&w illustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aMusic and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tIllustrations -- _tMusical Examples -- _tPreface -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _tCHAPTER 1 Growing Up in Yunnan: Emergence of a Radical Nationalist -- _tCHAPTER 2 Reading Nie Er’s Diary: “I Could Be a Symbol for China” -- _tCHAPTER 3 The Politics of Music: Ideological Debates and Popularization -- _tCHAPTER 4 Composing for the Revolution -- _tCHAPTER 5 The Making of a National Icon: Commemorating Nie Er, 1935–1949 -- _tCHAPTER 6 Creating the “People’s Musician”: Socialist Construction and the Film Nie Er -- _tCHAPTER 7 Marketing Nie Er in Yunnan: From the “People’s Musician” to “Number One Brand” -- _tEpilogue -- _tAppendix -- _tAbbreviations -- _tNotes -- _tSelected Bibliography -- _tIndex -- _tABOUT THE AUTHOR
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn 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 People’s Republic. Nie was quickly canonized after his death and later recast into the “People’s Musician” during the 1950s, effectively becoming a national monument. Howard engages two historical paradigms that have dominated the study of twentieth-century China: revolution and modernity. He argues that Nie Er, active in the leftist artistic community and critical of capitalism, availed himself of media technology, especially the emerging sound cinema, to create a modern, revolutionary, and nationalist music. This thesis stands as a powerful corrective to a growing literature on the construction of a Chinese modernity, which has privileged the mass consumer culture of Shanghai and consciously sought to displace the focus on China’s revolutionary experience. Composing for the Revolution also provides insight into understudied aspects of China’s nationalism—its sonic and musical dimensions. Howard’s analyses highlights Nie’s extensive writings on the political function of music, examination of the musical techniques and lyrics of compositions within the context of left-wing cinema, and also the transmission of his songs through film, social movements, and commemoration. Nie Er shared multiple and overlapping identities based on regionalism, nationalism, and left-wing internationalism. His march songs, inspired by Soviet “mass songs,” combined Western musical structure and aesthetic with elements of Chinese folk music. The songs’ ideological message promoted class nationalism, but his “March of the Volunteers” elevated his music to a universal status thereby transcending the nation.Traversing the life and legacy of Nie Er, Howard offers readers a profound insight into the meanings of nationalism and memory in contemporary China. Composing for the Revolution underscores the value of careful reading of sources and the author’s willingness to approach a subject from multiple perspectives.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650		0	_aComposers _zChina _vBiography.
650		0	_aNational songs _zChina _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aNationalism _zChina _xHistory _y20th century.
650		7	_aMUSIC / Ethnomusicology. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aLau, Frederick _ecuratore
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780824885731?locatt=mode:legacy
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824885731
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824885731/original
942			_cEB
999			_c204358 _d204358