Listening to China's Cultural Revolution: Music, Politics, and Cultural

Bringing together the most recent research on the Cultural Revolution in China, musicologists, historians, literary scholars, and others discuss the music and its political implications. Combined, these chapters, paint a vibrant picture of the long-lasting impact that the musical revolution had on ordinary citizens, as well as political leaders.

Laurence Coderre, University of California, Berkeley, USA Dai Jiafang, Central Conservatory of Music, China Barbara Mittler, University of Heidelberg, Germany Lau Sze Wing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Rowan Pease, Independent Scholar, China Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Rutgers University, USA Ban Wang, Stanford University, USA John Winzenburg, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Chuen-Fung Wong, Macalester College, USA

Introduction; Paul Clark, Laikwan Pang and Tsan-Huang Tsai PART I: TEMPORALITY: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN CULTURAL REVOLUTION MUSIC 1. A Diachronic Study of Jingju Yangbanxi Model Peking Opera Music; Dai Jiafang, translated by Lau Sze Wing 2. From Confucianist Meditative Tool to Maoist Revolutionary Weapon: The Seven-Stringed Zither (Qin) in the Cultural Revolution; Tsan-Huang Tsai 3. Breaking Bad: Sabotaging the Production of the Hero in the Amateur Performance of Yangbanxi; Laurence Coderre 4. Third World Internationalism: Films and Operas in the Chinese Cultural Revolution; Ban Wang 5. Singing in the Dark: Film and Cultural Revolution Musical Culture; Paul Clark PART II: GEOGRAPHY: TRANSPLANTATION AND THE MAKING OF REGIONAL YANGBANXI 6. Dialects as Untamable: How to Revolutionize Cantonese Opera?; Laikwan Pang 7. The West is Red: Uyghur Adaptation of The Legend of the Red Lantern (Qizil Chiragh) During China ' 's Cultural Revolution; Chuen-Fung Wong 8. The Dragon River Reaches the Borders: The Rehabilitation of Ethnic Music in a Model Opera; Rowan Pease PART III: LEGACIES AND LINEAGES: CULTURAL REVOLUTION SOUNDSCAPES BEYOND THE MAO ERA 9. Musical-Dramatic Experimentation in the Yangbanxi: A Case for Precedence in The Great Wall; John Winzenburg 10. Sonic Imaginary After the Cultural Revolution; Nancy Yunhwa Rao 11. Just Beat It! Popular Legacies of Cultural Revolution Music; Barbara Mittler