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Acmr Bibliography20100528.Pdf ACMR BIBLIOGRAPHY UPDATE 2010 ASSOCIATION FOR CHINESE MUSIC RESEARCH MAY 2010 Contributors: Lei Ouyang Bryant, Valerie Samson, and Gloria Wong BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS Bonds, Alexandra B. 2008. Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture. University of Hawaii Press. [ISBN: 9780824829568] Reviewed by: Andrea S. Goldman (2010), Journal of Asian Studies. 69:207-208. Clark, Mitchell. 2005. Sounds of the Silk Road: Musical Instruments of Asia. Boston: MFA Publications. [ISBN: 0878466886] Reviewed by: Jesse A. Johnston (2010). Asian Music 41(1)169-172. Cho, Gene J. 2010. Music Culture of China: Is Music a Universal Language? Anthology of Essays and Songs. University of North Texas College of Music. [ISBN: 1440192510] Davis, Sara L.M. 2005. Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China’s Southwest Borders. New York: Columbia University Press. [ISBN: 9780231135269] De Kloet, Jerome. 2010. China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music. Amsterdam: IIAS Publications, Amsterdam University Press. [ISBN: 9089641629] Fields, Rebecca. 2010. The Power of Music: Bell Ownership and the Evolving Definition of the 'Other' in Ancient China. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag [ISBN: 9783639227505] Furniss, Ingrid Maren. 2008. Music in Ancient China : an archaeological and art historical study of strings, winds, and drums during the Eastern Zhou and Han periods (770 BCE-220 CE). Amherst N.Y.: Cambria Press. [ISBN 9781604975208, 1604975202] Reviewed by: Ania Peczalska (2009). Journal of Folklore Research. http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=951. Goldstein, Joshua. 2007. Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-creation of Peking Opera, 1870-1937. Berkeley : University of California Press. [ISBN: 9780520247529] Reviewed by: Bingbing Wei (2009). Asian Theatre Journal 26(2): 365-367. Hay, Trevor. 2009. China's Proletarian Myth: The Revolutionary Narrative and Model Theatre of the Cultural Revolution. Saarbrücken, Germany. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. [ISBN: 9783838308586; 3838308581] Ho, Fred. 2009. Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader. Edited by Diane C. Fujino. Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley. Afterword by Bill V. Mullen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [ISBN: 9780816656844] Hsieh, Fang-Lan and Terry W. York. 2010. A History of Chinese Christian Hymnody: From Its Missionary Origins to Contemporary Indigenous Productions. Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Press. [ISBN: 0773438165] [ISBN: 9780773438163] Idema, Wilt L. 2009. Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women’s Script. Seattle: University of Washington Press. [ISBN: 9780295988412, 9780295988429] Reviewed by: Katherine Dimmery (2009). Journal of Folklore Research. http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=836 ACMR Bibliography Update 2010 2 Idema, Wilt, Maghiel Van Crevel, Tian Yuan Tan, and Michel Hockx, eds. 2009. Text, Performance and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Sinica Leidensia 92. [ISBN: 9004179062] Jiang, Jin. 2008, 2009. Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth- Century Shanghai. Seattle: University of Washington Press. [ISBN: 9780295988436] Jones, Stephen. 2007. Ritual and Music of North China: Shawm Bands in Shanxi. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, SOAS Musicology Series. [ISBN: 0754661636] Lee, Tong Soon. 2009. Chinese Street Opera in Singapore. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [ISBN: 9780252032462] Light, Nathan. 2008. Intimate Heritage (Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia) Berlin: LIT Verlag. [ISBN: 9783825811204] Liu, C. C. ed. 2010. A Critical History of New Music in China. trs. Caroline Mason. Zhongguo xin yinyueshi lunji. 4 vols. Centre of Asian Studies, 1986-1992. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. [ISBN: 9629963604] Miller, Frederic P., Agnes F. Vandome, and John McBrewster, eds. 2010. Music of Vietnam: Syncretism, Music of China, Indochina, Champa, Nhã nhạc, Quan họ, Hat chau van, Nhạc dân tộc cải biên, Ca trù, Đàn bầu, Đàn gào, Đàn nguyệt, Đan nhị, Đàn sến, Đàn tam thập lục, Đàn tranh, Đàn tỳ bà Alphascript Publishing, VDM Publishing House Ltd.[ISBN: 9786130231811] Miller, Frederic P., Agnes F. Vandome, and John McBrewster, eds. 2009. Music of Taiwan: Demographics of Taiwan, Taiwanese people, Hoklo people, Hakka people, Mainlander (China), Chiang Kai-shek, Taiwanese aborigines, Music of China, Kuomintang, Culture of Taiwan, Standard Mandarin. Alphascript Publishing, VDM Publishing House Ltd. [ISBN: 9786130255756] Miller, Frederic P., Agnes F. Vandome, and John McBrewster. 2009. Cantonese Opera: Chinese opera, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chinese art, Singing, Martial arts, Acrobatics, Acting, Zhejiang, Cantopop, Huangmei opera, Beijing opera, Music of China, Music of Hong Kong. Alphascript Publishing, VDM Publishing House Ltd. [ISBN: 6130267029] Moskowitz, Marc L. 2009. Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Discontents. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. [ISBN: 0824834224] Ou, Chaoquan. [2004] 2007. Life in a Kam Village in Southwest China, 1930-1949. trs. D. Norman Geary. Boston: Brill. Sinica Leidensia 80. [ISBN: 9789004162297] Pfeifer, Mark Edward. 2007. Hmong-Related Works, 1996-2006: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press. [ISBN: 0810860163] Rees, Helen, Ed. 2009. Lives in Chinese Music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [ISBN: 0252033795] Steen, Andreas. 2006. Zwischen Unterhaltung und Revolution: Grammophone, Schallplatten und die Anfange der Musikindustrie in Shanghai. (Between the Status Quo and Revolution: Grammophones, Records and the Beginning of Music Industry in Shanghai.) Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. [Reprint of 2003 dissertation] [ISBN: 9783447053556] Reviewed by: Lena Henningsen (2007), H-Soz-u-Kult. 01.08.2007. http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu- berlin.de/rezensionen/2007-3-080. Thorpe, Ashley. 2007. The Role of the Chou (“Clown”) in Traditional Chinese Drama: Comedy, Criticism, and Cosmology on the Chinese Stage. Lewiston NY: Edwin Mellen Press. Reviewed by: Megan Evans (2009), Asian Theatre Journal, 26(2): 368-371. ACMR Bibliography Update 2010 3 Tian, Min. 2010. China's Greatest Operatic Male Actor of Female Roles: Documenting the Life and Art of Mei Lanfang, 1894-1961. Lampeter, Ceredigion, U. K. Edwin Mellen Press. [ISBN: 0773437770] ISBN: 9780773437777] –––––––. 2008. The Poetics of Difference and Displacement: the Twentieth-Century Chinese- Western Intercultural Theatre. Hong Kong University Press. [ISBN: 9622099076] Reviewed by: Ronald Gilliam (2009), Asian Theatre Journal, 26(2): 371-374. Reviewed by: Hesse Phillips (2010), Theatre Research International 35:77-78. Wang, Ying-Fen and Liu-Yu Liou, eds. 2008. Sounds from Wartime Taiwan, 1943. Kurosawa and Masu’s Recordings of Taiwan Aboriginal and Han Chinese Music. Taipei: National Taiwan University. Ward, Adrienne. 2010. Pagodas in Play: China on the Eighteenth-century Italian Opera Stage. Bucknell University Press. [ISBN: 9780838756966] Wong, Samuel Shengmiao and Desmond Kon. 2003. Impressions of a Pipa Player: Profiles of the World’s Most Premier. Singapore: Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Beaumont Pub. [ISBN: 981048461X] Reviewed by: John Meyers (2005) Ethnomusicology. 49(2): 325- 327. Wong, Samuel Shengmiao. 2005. Qi: An Instrumental Guide to the Chinese Orchestra. Singapore: Teng. [ISBN: 9810540124] Yang, Wang and Ju Zi. 2009. Chorus Singing from the People. Beijing. New World Press. [ISBN: 9787802289987] Yung, Bell. 2008. The Last of China’s Literati: The Music, Poetry, and Life of Tsar Teh-yun. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [ISBN: 9789622099166] Yung, Bell. 2010. The Flower Princess: A Cantonese Opera by Tong Dik Sang. trs. by Bell Yung, Sonia Ng and Katherine Carlitz. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. [ISBN: 978- 962-996-374-3]. Yung, Bell, Mei Xiao and Anita Wong. 2002. The Musical Arts of Ancient China. Reviewed by: Tong Soon Lee (2005), Asian Music 36(2): 107-8. Zheng, Su. 2010. Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. [ISBN: 9780195134377] ARTICLES Chen, Szu-Wei. 2005. “The Rise and Generic Features of Shanghai Popular Songs in the 1930s and 1940s.” Popular Music 24(1): 107-125. Chiu, Wai Yee Lulu. 2009. “From 1746 to 1786: The Continual Revision of the Imperial Music Treatise Yuzhi LüLü Zhangyi Houbian.” Fontes Artis Musicae 56(3): 271-282. Dermorest, Steven M., Steven J. Morrison, Münir N. Beken, Denise Jungbluth. 2008. “Lost in Translation: An Enculturation Effect in Music Memory Performance.” Music Perception 25(3): 213-223. Doggett, Anne. 2008. “Strains from Flowery Land: Responses to Chinese Musical Activity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ballarat.” Context 33:107-120. Furniss, Ingrid. 2009. “Unearthing China’s Informal Musicians: An Archaeological and Textual Study of the Shang to Tang Periods.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 41:23-41. ACMR Bibliography Update 2010 4 Goodman, Howard L., and Lien, Y. Edmund. 2009. “A Third Century A.D. Chinese System of Di – Flute Temperament: Matching Ancient Pitch-standards and Confronting Modal Practice.” The Galpin Society Journal 62. Guy, Nancy. 2009. “Flowing Down Taiwan’s Tamsui River: Towards an Ecomusicolgy of the Environmental Imagination.” Ethnomusicology 53(2): 218-248. Ho, Wai-Chung. 2007. "Music and Cultural Politics in Taiwan." International Journal of Cultural Studies 10(4): 463-483. Hung, Eric. 2009. “Introduction: Music in the Asian Diaspora.” Asian Music. 40(1): 1-3. –––––––. 2009. “Performing Chineseness on the Western Concert
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