Music China: Dialogue before the dialogue of Chinese and Western music

Author: Book Review Week of Guangming Daily
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Publishing Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Editor's Recommendation: The China on the Frontier Series. This book takes the tortuous path of Sino-Western musical cultural exchange since modern times as its historical backdrop and, from a 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. The insightful discussion of the book's theme requires interdisciplinary cross-fertilization, involving disciplines such as musicology, music anthropology, field research findings, music hermeneutics, and the history of musicology. Through the analysis of the domestic music performance market and hotspots in media cultural 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, and this interest has fundamentally driven scholars to think about these issues. The book takes the tortuous path of Sino-Western musical cultural exchange since modern times as its historical backdrop, from a perspective of cultural pluralism, to find the intersection points and possibilities for equal dialogue between Sino-Western musical cultures in the new century, and other content.