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Yellow Music : Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age by Andrew F. Jones (2001, Hardcover)
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PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-10082232685X
ISBN-139780822326854
eBay Product ID (ePID)16038689932
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Book TitleYellow Music : Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicEthnic, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Genres & Styles / Jazz
IllustratorYes
GenreMusic
AuthorAndrew F. Jones
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.9 Oz
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width5.9 in
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LCCN2001-017335
Reviews" Yellow Music is a fantastic, one-of-a-kind read: a beautifully written, theoretically rich, and empirically grounded story about the relationship between American jazz music and the politics of colonialism and modernity in China during the interwar years. Andrew F. Jones puts the question of music at the center of debates about the role of the popular in the making of modern China."--Ralph Litzinger, author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging, “ Yellow Music pushes commonsense presumptions forward by complicating theory with solid empirical study. Jones weaves rich information and intriguing conclusions throughout this historically grounded book.�-Miriam Silverberg, author of Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu, " Yellow Music is a fantastic, one-of-a-kind read: a beautifully written, theoretically rich, and empirically grounded story about the relationship between American jazz music and the politics of colonialism and modernity in China during the interwar years. Andrew F. Jones puts the question of music at the center of debates about the role of the popular in the making of modern China."- Ralph Litzinger, author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging " Yellow Music pushes common sense presumptions forward by complicating theory with solid empirical study. Jones weaves rich information and intriguing conclusions throughout this historically grounded book."- Miram Silverberg, author of Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu "Jones illuminates Chinese cultural and political history from an unknown angle-that of popular music and an emergent transnational mass culture. In doing so, he not only enriches our understanding of this history but also makes an original contribution."- Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China "Andrew F. Jones's essential and exciting study follows the importation of Western technology and music into urban China, the creation of indigenous popular forms and the Chinese government's attempt to regulate the 'types' of sounds circulating at this critical juncture in the nation's history . . . it is truly refreshing to read a history of individuals and record players that reveals so much about the political climate and local culture of China."--The Wire, January 2002, "Jones illuminates Chinese cultural and political history from an unknown angle-that of popular music and an emergent transnational mass culture. In doing so, he not only enriches our understanding of this history but also makes an original contribution."-Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China, “ Yellow Music is a fantastic, one-of-a-kind read: a beautifully written, theoretically rich, and empirically grounded story about the relationship between American jazz music and the politics of colonialism and modernity in China during the interwar years. Andrew F. Jones puts the question of music at the center of debates about the role of the popular in the making of modern China.�-Ralph Litzinger, author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging, “Jones illuminates Chinese cultural and political history from an unknown angle-that of popular music and an emergent transnational mass culture. In doing so, he not only enriches our understanding of this history but also makes an original contribution.�-Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China, " Yellow Music is a fantastic, one-of-a-kind read: a beautifully written, theoretically rich, and empirically grounded story about the relationship between American jazz music and the politics of colonialism and modernity in China during the interwar years. Andrew F. Jones puts the question of music at the center of debates about the role of the popular in the making of modern China."-Ralph Litzinger, author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging, "Jones illuminates Chinese cultural and political history from an unknown angle--that of popular music and an emergent transnational mass culture. In doing so, he not only enriches our understanding of this history but also makes an original contribution."--Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China, " Yellow Music pushes commonsense presumptions forward by complicating theory with solid empirical study. Jones weaves rich information and intriguing conclusions throughout this historically grounded book."--Miriam Silverberg, author of Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu, "Yellow Music is a fantastic, one-of-a-kind read: a beautifully written, theoretically rich, and empirically grounded story about the relationship between American jazz music and the politics of colonialism and modernity in China during the interwar years. Andrew F. Jones puts the question of music at the center of debates about the role of the popular in the making of modern China."- Ralph Litzinger, author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging "Yellow Music pushes common sense presumptions forward by complicating theory with solid empirical study. Jones weaves rich information and intriguing conclusions throughout this historically grounded book."- Miram Silverberg, author of Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu "Jones illuminates Chinese cultural and political history from an unknown angle-that of popular music and an emergent transnational mass culture. In doing so, he not only enriches our understanding of this history but also makes an original contribution."- Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China"Andrew F. Jones's essential and exciting study follows the importation of Western technology and music into urban China, the creation of indigenous popular forms and the Chinese government's attempt to regulate the 'types' of sounds circulating at this critical juncture in the nation's history . . . it is truly refreshing to read a history of individuals and record players that reveals so much about the political climate and local culture of China."--The Wire, January 2002, " Yellow Music pushes commonsense presumptions forward by complicating theory with solid empirical study. Jones weaves rich information and intriguing conclusions throughout this historically grounded book."-Miriam Silverberg, author of Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal781.64/0951
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Listening to Jazz Age China 1 1. The Orchestration of Chinese Musical Life 21 2. The Gramophone in China 53 3. The Yellow Music of Li Jinhui 73 4. Mass Music and the Politics of Phonographic Realism 105 Glossary 137 Notes 147 Bibliography 183 Index 207
SynopsisThe distribution of the gramophone and the birth of popular music, including jazz, as a part of nation-building and modernity in China, Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow" or "pornographic" music -- as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American jazz, Hollywood film music, and Chinese folk forms -- and the anticolonial mass music that challenged its commercial and ideological dominance. Jones radically revises previous understandings of race, politics, popular culture, and technology in the making of modern Chinese culture., Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow" or "pornographic" music--as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American jazz, Hollywood film music, and Chinese folk forms--and the anticolonial mass music that challenged its commercial and ideological dominance. Jones radically revises previous understandings of race, politics, popular culture, and technology in the making of modern Chinese culture. The personal and professional histories of three musicians are central to Jones's discussions of shifting gender roles, class inequality, the politics of national salvation, and emerging media technologies: the American jazz musician Buck Clayton; Li Jinhui, the creator of "yellow music"; and leftist Nie Er, a former student of Li's whose musical idiom grew out of virulent opposition to this Sinified jazz. As he analyzes global media cultures in the postcolonial world, Jones avoids the parochialism of media studies in the West. He teaches us to hear not only the American influence on Chinese popular music but the Chinese influence on American music as well; in so doing, he illuminates the ways in which both cultures were implicated in the unfolding of colonial modernity in the twentieth century.
LC Classification NumberML3502.C5J63 2001
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