| Description |
xvi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and index. |
| Contents |
Researching the battlefield -- Music and politics -- Memories of the battlefield : "It's in your bones, it's in your blood" -- Music and childhood -- Memories of the battlefield : "Learning music to avoid going 'Up to the mountains and down to the countryside'" -- Music and memory -- Memories of the battlefield : "You hear these Songs and you are inspired" -- Conclusions -- Appendices. Brief historical context of the Cultural Revolution ; Sixty-five children's songs in New songs of the battlefield. |
| Summary |
"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: 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Music -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Music -- Political aspects. |
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China. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Music. |
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China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Music and the revolution.
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Music and state -- China.
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Music and state. |
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Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Ouyang, Lei. Music as Mao's weapon Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021 9780252053115 (DLC) 2021038213 |
| ISBN |
9780252044175 hardcover |
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0252044177 hardcover |
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9780252086212 paperback |
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025208621X paperback |
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