Very Loud, Very Soft: Boston University Percussion Ensemble, November 16, 2012

This is the concert program of the Very Loud, Very Soft: Boston University Percussion Ensemble performance on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 8:00 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were A View From Nowhen by Samuel Solomon, Snare Drum for Camus by Joseph Celli, A Volcano Mouth by Jo Kondo, ...dust into dust... from Strange and Sacred Noise by John Luther Adams, Garden Eight by Lei Liang, and Persephassa by Iannis Xenakis. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Pacific Review Fall 1992

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Jazz education in mainland China: historical and contemporary perspectives

As a popular music genre and significant Western cultural export, jazz music arrived in China during the 1920s. However, previous research has not paid sufficient critical attention to China’s experience of jazz music prior to the 1980s, and there is still a paucity of research into jazz education in China. I will analyse the current state of jazz education in mainland China and the underlying processes and history of its development. The work is significant both in terms of providing new insights into musical and cultural life in mainland China, but also more widely in considering the international transmission of music and music education into different cultures. This research aims to adopt a two-stage approach, rereading the origins and development of jazz and jazz education in China since the 1920s through the optic of history, geography and cultural policy, before using this foundation to reread modern Chinese jazz education. My investigation will employ a combination of fieldwork, involving data collection and analysis of interviews I have conducted, observations, and questionnaires, as well as an examination of Chinese and foreign literature since the 1980s. The research will also be the first to periodise contemporary jazz education in China, building an empirical and methodological framework which may be of benefit to future scholars investigating this area. The three stages include the starting point of contemporary jazz education in China (1978-1993); the period of rapid development of contemporary jazz education (1993-2005); and the mature period of jazz education (2005-2020)

The cultural politics of introducing popular music into China's music education

Since embarking on its course of economic reform and opening up to the world in the late 1970s, China has moved from a planned economy to a socialist-market economy; the resulting social and cultural changes have been many, and are reflected in the country's school music curriculum. This paper first introduces the historical background of popular music in the community and in school music in China in the 20th century. Second, it explores the reformation of music education that has, from the turn of the millennium, included popular music in school music education. This is followed by a discussion of the integration of popular music into the school curriculum in terms of how music education and cultural politics are shaped by the social and political relationships between (1) contemporary cultural and social values and traditional Chinese ideologies; (2) collectivism and individualism; and (3) nationalism and globalism. It is argued that, despite the introduction of popular music and the emphasis put on it in some areas of school music education, the Chinese state still uses traditional Chinese culture and values to enhance its legitimacy and consolidate its authority. © 2012 Taylor & Francis.postprin

Graduate Catalog 2015-2016

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Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions, January to December, 2009

2009 Annual Report of Research and Creative Productions, Morehead State University, Division of Academic Affairs, Research and Creative Productions Committee

University of Memphis commencement, 2003 August. Program

Program for the Summer convocation of the 91st commencement of the University of Memphis at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Pyramid on August 17, 2003. Digitized by the Internet Archive.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-ua-pub-commencements/1146/thumbnail.jp