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Even in the rain : Uyghur music in modern China

Title: Even in the rain : Uyghur music in modern China / Chuen-Fung Wong.
Author: Wong, Chuen-Fung, 1977-
Publication: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2023]

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Description

xii, 246 pages : illustrations, map, notated music; 23 cm.

Summary

"Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China explores music as constitutive of Uyghur cultural and social life where subaltern experiences of ethnicity, race, and nationhood are indexed. A Central Asian Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim people, the Uyghur are identified in China as one of the fifty-five officially designated "minority nationalities." Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Uyghur homeland in the far Chinese northwest, Chuen-Fung Wong focuses on aspects of Uyghur music making as it faces the state's management of minority art expressions. Music serves as a metaphor of the Uyghur nation-as heritage (miras), culture (medeniyet), and tradition (en'ene)-while it struggles to survive, respond, and adapt to the Chinese state's aggressive maneuvering and the broader intercultural influences that have shaped Uyghur performing arts in modern times. As the Uyghur and other non-Han peoples in China continue to be minoritized under the pretexts of multiculturalism and cultural enlightenment, local musicians and audiences react with a vast range of performing and listening approaches to engage assimilation, racism, and other grim realities of everyday life. Even in the Rain provides the political, historical, and theoretical context to address overlapping genres and soundscapes, which are bound by creative processes that have negotiated the state's minority policy and the collective pursuit of identity. With a focus on the minoritized musical consciousness in Uyghur performance, especially on the ways in which Uyghur musicians encounter modernity under a colonial context, this book examines the cultivation of a unique musical deftness that has allowed musicians to move across the various localizing strategies and intercultural practices. Uyghur musical modernity should not be understood as the passive acceptance of outside influences-and certainly not the erasure of indigenous elements and national heritage. Local traditions and hegemonic influences sometimes appear to be more collaborating than conflicting, in that subaltern expressions actively opt to manifest in forms that are dominant and deemed universal. This timely and comprehensive analysis spans approximately seven decades of modern Uyghur musical life, during which musicians and audiences adopted an array of methods, experimenting with new identity formations to navigate life as often reluctant Chinese citizens"--

Series Statement

Music and performing arts of Asia and the Pacific

Uniform Title

Music and performing arts of Asia and the Pacific.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-240) and index.

Contents

Ethnography and Music Scholarship -- The Modern Sound of "Minority" Music -- Muqam : Between National Heritage and Local Practices -- Singing Muqam in Uyghur Pop -- Modernist Reform and Uyghur Instrumental Music -- Sounding Indigenous in the "Original Ecology" -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JME 24-213

ISBN

9780824895013
0824895010
9780824895617
0824895614

LCCN

2022061326

OCLC

1360294753

Author

Wong, Chuen-Fung, 1977- author.

Title

Even in the rain : Uyghur music in modern China / Chuen-Fung Wong.

Publisher

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Music and performing arts of Asia and the Pacific

Music and performing arts of Asia and the Pacific.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-240) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Wong, Chuen-Fung. Even in the rain Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2023 9780824895020 (DLC) 2022061327

Research Call Number

JME 24-213

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