Urban Music Landscape

Author: Tang Yating
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: With the development of the discipline itself, music anthropology not only studies contemporary surviving musical life but also focuses on cultural phenomena of music in historical traditions. It not only explores various ethnic and folk music activities, including those in Western societies, but also reflects on the cultural essence of Western classical music. At the same time, the "fieldwork" scope of music anthropology is no longer limited to narrow, remote rural tribes but has expanded to a broader range of the entire human musical activity scene, undoubtedly including the urban musical culture around us. This book is a reflection conducted in response to the new challenges and questions faced by urban musical culture. Mr. Tang Yating's work not only introduces readers to the vast landscape of urban musical culture, including cultural diversity and spatiotemporal fluidity, economic and commercial aspects and ideological interpretations, as well as the relationship between humans as subjects and science and technology; but also, as a scholar, examines the academic background and development of urban musical culture research from a high intellectual perspective. Additionally, he uses his own "fieldwork" on folk music life in northeastern England and the musical life of the Shanghai Jewish refugee community as research cases, respectively elaborating on the different historical and cultural traditions and phenomena of music in various urban regions.