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Half sound, half philosophy : aesthetics, politics, and history of China's sound art
- Title
- Half sound, half philosophy : aesthetics, politics, and history of China's sound art / Jing Wang.
- Author
- Wang, Jing, 1982 November 25-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 216 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Maps the aesthetic, cultural, and socio-economical networks of a variety of sound practices and discourses in contemporary China"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-211) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Qi-Philosophy ; Sounds as Qi -- Sound, Resonance, the Philosophy of Qi : Ancient Chinese Acoustics ; The Philosophy of Qi ; Sound Explained through Qi-Philosophy ; Conclusion -- A Brief History of Sound in China's Contemporary Art : Conditions and Precursors ; New Media Art after 2000 ; Sound Art after 2000 -- A Brief History of Electronic and Experimental Music in China : The Electronic Instrument Builders ; Academic Electronic Music: Inauguration ; Nonacademic Electronic and Experimental Music ; Conclusion -- Shanshui-Thought in Experimental Music Practices : Shanshui-Thought: An Overview ; Shanshui: The Existential and the Epistemological ; Making Shanshui-Thought Audible: Two Aesthetic Qualities ; Conclusion -- In Praise of Strange Sounds of the Shamanistic : The Minor Tradition in Ancient Chinese Culture: Shamanism and Chimei Wangliang ; Acoustic Cultural Heritage and Nationalism ; Huanghu and Its Two Aesthetic Operations: Resonance and Withdrawal ; Conclusion -- Ubiquitous Control : From Cosmic Bell, Loudspeakers to Immanent Humming : Zhang Peili and Anti-Monumentality of Sound ; Zhang Ding and the Military-Entertainment-Art Complex ; Liu Chuang and the (Im)Possibility of Not Being Governed ; Conclusion - Qi-Thinking, or Cybernetics: A Way of Going On.
- Call Number
- JME 21-186
- ISBN
- 9781501333484
- 1501333488
- 9781501333491 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501333507 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020036734
- OCLC
- 1192304501
- Author
- Wang, Jing, 1982 November 25- author.
- Title
- Half sound, half philosophy : aesthetics, politics, and history of China's sound art / Jing Wang.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-211) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Wang, Jing, Half sound, half philosophy New York City : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 9781501333491 (DLC) 2020036735
- Research Call Number
- JME 21-186