Composing for the Revolution : Nie Er and China's Sonic Nationalism /

In Composing for the Revolution: Nie Er and China's Sonic Nationalism, Joshua Howard explores the role the songwriter Nie Er played in the 1930s proletarian arts movement and the process by which he became a nationalist icon. Composed only months before his untimely death in 1935, Nie Er's...

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Main Author: Howard, Joshua H. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter, JSTOR (Online Service)
Other Authors: Lau, Frederick (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2020]
Honolulu : [2021]
Series:Music and performing arts of Asia and the Pacific
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t Illustrations --   |t Musical Examples --   |t Preface --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Introduction --   |t CHAPTER 1 Growing Up in Yunnan: Emergence of a Radical Nationalist --   |t CHAPTER 2 Reading Nie Er's Diary: "I Could Be a Symbol for China" --   |t CHAPTER 3 The Politics of Music: Ideological Debates and Popularization --   |t CHAPTER 4 Composing for the Revolution --   |t CHAPTER 5 The Making of a National Icon: Commemorating Nie Er, 1935-1949 --   |t CHAPTER 6 Creating the "People's Musician": Socialist Construction and the Film Nie Er --   |t CHAPTER 7 Marketing Nie Er in Yunnan: From the "People's Musician" to "Number One Brand" --   |t Epilogue --   |t Appendix --   |t Abbreviations --   |t Notes --   |t Selected Bibliography --   |t Index --   |t ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
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520 |a In Composing for the Revolution: Nie Er and China's Sonic Nationalism, Joshua Howard explores the role the songwriter Nie Er played in the 1930s proletarian arts movement and the process by which he became a nationalist icon. Composed only months before his untimely death in 1935, Nie Er's last song, the "March of the Volunteers," captured the rising anti-Japanese sentiment and was selected as China's national anthem with the establishment of the People's Republic. Nie was quickly canonized after his death and later recast into the "People's Musician" during the 1950s, effectively becoming a national monument. Howard engages two historical paradigms that have dominated the study of twentiethcentury China-revolution and modernity. He argues that active in the leftist artistic community and critical of capitalism, Nie Er availed himself of media technology, especially the emerging sound cinema, to create a modern, revolutionary, and nationalist music. This thesis stands as a powerful corrective to a growing literature on the construction of a Chinese modernity, which has privileged the mass consumer culture of Shanghai and consciously sought to displace the focus on China's revolutionary experience. Composing for the Revolution also provides insight into understudied aspects of China's nationalism-its sonic and musical dimensions. Howard's analyses highlights Nie's extensive writings on the political function of music, examination of the musical techniques and lyrics of compositions within the context of left-wing cinema, and also the transmission of his songs through film, social movements, and commemoration. Nie Er shared multiple and overlapping identities based on regionalism, nationalism, and left-wing internationalism. His march songs, inspired by Soviet "mass songs," combined Western musical structure and aesthetic with elements of Chinese folk music. The songs' ideological message promoted class nationalism, but his "March of the Volunteers" elevated his music to a universal status thereby transcending the nation.Traversing the life and legacy of Nie Er, Howard offers readers a profound insight into the meanings of nationalism and memory in contemporary China. Composing for the Revolution underscores the value of careful reading of sources and the author's willingness to approach a subject from multiple perspectives 
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