Listening to China’s Cultural Revolution: Music, Politics, and Cultural Continuities

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
A Diachronic Study of Jingju Yangbanxi Model Peking Opera Music....Pages 11-35
From Confucianist Meditative Tool to Maoist Revolutionary Weapon: The Seven-Stringed Zither (Qin) in the Cultural Revolution....Pages 37-64
Breaking Bad: Sabotaging the Production of the Hero in the Amateur Performance of Yangbanxi....Pages 65-83
Third World Internationalism: Films and Operas in the Chinese Cultural Revolution....Pages 85-106
Singing in the Dark: Film and Cultural Revolution Musical Culture....Pages 107-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Dialects as Untamable: How to Revolutionize Cantonese Opera?....Pages 129-146
The West is Red: Uyghur Adaptation of The Legend of the Red Lantern (Qizil Chiragh) during China’s Cultural Revolution....Pages 147-165
The Dragon River Reaches the Borders: The Rehabilitation of Ethnic Music in a Model Opera....Pages 167-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Musical-Dramatic Experimentation in the Yangbanxi: A Case for Precedence in The Great Wall....Pages 189-212
Sonic Imaginary after the Cultural Revolution....Pages 213-238
Just Beat It! Popular Legacies of Cultural Revolution Music....Pages 239-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-280