Music As Mao's Weapon

Remembering the Cultural Revolution

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvLei X. Ouyang

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022 China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) produced propaganda music that still stirs unease and, at times, evokes nostalgia. Lei X. Ouyang uses selections from revolutionary songbooks to untangle the complex interactions between memory, trauma, and generational imprinting among those who survived the period of extremes. Interviews combine with ethnographic fieldwork and surveys to explore both the Cultural Revolution's effect on those who lived through it as children and contemporary remembrance of the music created to serve the Maoist regime. As Ouyang shows, the weaponization of music served an ideological revolution but also revolutionized the senses. She examines essential questions raised by this phenomenon, including: What did the revolutionization look, sound, and feel like? What does it take for individuals and groups to engage with such music? And what is the impact of such an experience over time?Perceptive and provocative, Music as Mao's Weapon is an insightful look at the exploitation and manipulation of the arts under authoritarianism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-01-25
Mått152 x 226 x 15 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor220
FörlagUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN9780252086212

Tillhör följande kategorier

Världsmusik inom Kultur
Musikböcker inom Kultur
Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
Politiskt förtryck inom Samhalle och politik
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xiiiNotes on Pinyin, Surnames, Transliteration, and Translation xvii1 Researching the Battlefield 12 Music and Politics 23Memories of the Battlefield: "It's in Your Bones, It's in Your Blood" 713 Music and Childhood 76Memories of the Battlefield: "Learning Music to Avoid Going 'Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside'" 1034 Music and Memory 109Memories of the Battlefield: "You Hear These Songs and You Are Inspired" 1315 Conclusions 138Appendix A Brief Historical Context of the Cultural Revolution 155Appendix B Sixty-Five Children's Songs in New Songs of the Battlefield 159Chinese Character Glossary 163Notes 169Bibliography 177Index 191

"This book opens a new window to events during the Mao era; it undermines our preconceived bias about the events of that phase and is full of musical pieces of the period, providing a distinct picture of the society at that time. . . . Scholars trying to understand Chinese culture and East Asian Studies should go through this book, as the multidisciplinary approach of Lei would lead them to explore something new and fresh in the field." --International Institute for Asian Studies"Music as Mao's Weapon is well-written and comes with detailed background information, photographs, music examples and song lists, which makes it attractive also to the non-China expert. It exposes strategies of revolutionary music composition and investigates its effects on the individual in the highly politicized and violent context of the Cultural Revolution. . . . Ouyang's book offers stimulating insight into why, how, and to whom this musical heritage is still meaningful today." --The China Quarterly"Highly recommended." --Choice