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Series: Elements in Music since 1945
Chinese Émigré Composers and Divergent Modernisms
Chen Yi and Zhou Long
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2024
Summary
This Element examines the factors that drove the stylistic heterogeneity of Chen Yi and Zhou Long after the Cultural Revolution. Known as 'New Wave' composers, they entered the Central Conservatory of Music once the Cultural Revolution ended and attained international recognition for their modernisms after their early careers in America. Scholars have often treated their early music as contingent outcomes of that cultural and political moment. This Element proposes instead that unique personal factors shaped their modernisms despite their shared experiences of the Cultural Revolution and educations at the Central Conservatory and Columbia University. Through interviews on six stages of their development, the Element examines and explains the reasons for their stylistic divergence.
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- Series: Elements in Music since 1945Online ISBN: 9781009158817Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication: 30 May 2024
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