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Polycultural Synthesis in the Music of Chou Wen-chung 1st edition
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Polycultural Synthesis in the Music of Chou Wen-chung
The displacement of Chou Wen-chung from his native China in 1948 forced him into Western-European culture. Ultimately finding his vocation as a composer, he familiarized himself with classical and contemporary techniques but interpreted these through his traditionally oriented Chinese cultural perspective. The result has been the composition of a unique body of repertoire that synthesizes the most progressive Western compositional idioms with an astonishingly traditional heritage of Asian approaches, not only from music, but also from calligraphy, landscape painting, poetry, and more. Chou?s importance rests not only in his compositions, but also in his widespread influence through his extensive teaching career at Columbia University, where his many students included Bright Sheng, Zhou Long, Tan Dun, Chen Yi, Joan Tower, and many more. During his tenure at Columbia, he also founded the U. S.-China Arts Exchange, which continues to this day to be a vital stimulus for multicultural interaction. The volume will include an inventory of the Chou collection in the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland.
318 pages, 139 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Halftones, black and white; 10 Tables, black and w
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 16, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138288645 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 348 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 646 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Arlin, Mary I. |
| Editor | Radice, Mark A. |
