Music China

Author: Book Review Section, Guangming Daily
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Reading, appreciating, and compiling books is also a process of spiritual exploration. Through this intellectual journey, both the editor and the author continuously sift through the sands on the "frontiers" to harvest ideas. We believe readers, with their own reason and insight, will also grasp the spiritual and cultural significance behind these images and texts, as well as the dazzling sense of life they convey. Culture is diverse and omnipresent. As a "sub-academic" cultural series, there are many themes to explore. This book takes the tortuous path of Sino-Western musical cultural exchange since modern times as its historical backdrop, and from the perspective of cultural pluralism, attempts to find the intersection points and possibilities for equal dialogue between Sino-Western musical cultures in the new century. In this process, it expresses the confidence of Chinese music scholars in the future of Chinese music. An innovative discussion on the theme of this book needs to be carried out through interdisciplinary intersections, involving disciplines such as musicology, ethnomusicology, field research findings, musical hermeneutics, and the history of musicology. Through the analysis of the domestic musical performance market and media hotspots in cultural arts reporting, it is not difficult to see that in recent years, cultural masses, including the target readers of this book, have shown great interest in the issues addressed in the book. This interest has fundamentally driven scholars to think about these issues.