When the north wind rises, play the tide of music

Author: Li Yan
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: The second part of the author's collected works includes book reviews, commentaries, overviews, and special profiles of individuals. This reflects a trend in musicology to direct its attention toward people, as an important aspect of modern and contemporary historical research is to delve into the living historical figures and hear their firsthand accounts of history. This is the kind of "truth" that cannot be reflected on the surface of cold historical materials! The past is no more, marking historical progress and the inevitable outcome of the dialectical negation of negation. The articles in the author's collected works are either published in their original form or supplemented for the new collection to be published in the new century, offering readers a fresh experience different from the past. The author named this collection "Music Waves Rising Against the Wind" because, during the research process on the Ameley Society and its key representatives in the 20th century, the author discovered that Ameley Society was an important musical group that emerged under the "oppression" of anti-art forces. Faced with the brutal suppression of art by such forces, it bravely promoted beautiful music, which aligns perfectly with the author's academic principle of "remaining unyielding in the face of pressure"—"never compromising on one's initial aspirations."