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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image cartographique. Musique notée : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wong, Chuen-Fung (1977-....)
Titre(s) : Even in the rain [Texte imprimé] : Uyghur music in modern China / Chuen-Fung Wong
Publication : Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-246 p.) : ill., map, notated music ; 23 cm
Collection : Music and performing arts of Asia and the Pacific
Lien à la collection : Music and performing arts of Asia and the Pacific
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China explores music as constitutive of
Uyghur cultural and social life where subaltern experiences of ethnicity, race, and
nationhood are indexed. A Central Asian Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim people,
the Uyghur are identified in China as one of the fifty-five officially designated
"minority nationalities." Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Uyghur homeland in
the far Chinese northwest, Chuen-Fung Wong focuses on aspects of Uyghur music making
as it faces the state's management of minority art expressions. Music serves as a
metaphor of the Uyghur nation-as heritage (miras), culture (medeniyet), and tradition
(en'ene)-while it struggles to survive, respond, and adapt to the Chinese state's
aggressive maneuvering and the broader intercultural influences that have shaped Uyghur
performing arts in modern times. As the Uyghur and other non-Han peoples in China
continue to be minoritized under the pretexts of multiculturalism and cultural enlightenment,
local musicians and audiences react with a vast range of performing and listening
approaches to engage assimilation, racism, and other grim realities of everyday life.
Even in the Rain provides the political, historical, and theoretical context to address
overlapping genres and soundscapes, which are bound by creative processes that have
negotiated the state's minority policy and the collective pursuit of identity. With
a focus on the minoritized musical consciousness in Uyghur performance, especially
on the ways in which Uyghur musicians encounter modernity under a colonial context,
this book examines the cultivation of a unique musical deftness that has allowed musicians
to move across the various localizing strategies and intercultural practices. Uyghur
musical modernity should not be understood as the passive acceptance of outside influences-and
certainly not the erasure of indigenous elements and national heritage. Local traditions
and hegemonic influences sometimes appear to be more collaborating than conflicting,
in that subaltern expressions actively opt to manifest in forms that are dominant
and deemed universal. This timely and comprehensive analysis spans approximately seven
decades of modern Uyghur musical life, during which musicians and audiences adopted
an array of methods, experimenting with new identity formations to navigate life as
often reluctant Chinese citizens"
Sujet(s) : Musique ouïgoure -- Xinjiang (Chine)
Maqām -- Xinjiang (Chine)
Ouïgours (peuple turc) -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Xinjiang (Chine)
Ethnomusicologie -- Chine
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.894 323051 (23e éd.) = Sociologie du peuple qui parle l'ouïgour - Chine ; 780.899 4 (23e éd.) = Musique - Étude en relation avec les peuples d' Asie du Nord et de l'Ouest ; Dravidiens
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780824895013
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb473183796
Notice n° :
FRBNF47318379
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Ethnography and Music Scholarship ; The Modern Sound of "Minority" Music ; Muqam
: Between National Heritage and Local Practices ; Singing Muqam in Uyghur Pop ;
Modernist Reform and Uyghur Instrumental Music ; Sounding Indigenous in the "Original
Ecology" ; Conclusion
