Electroacoustic Music in East Asia (Hardcover)

This book illuminates the development of electronic and computer music in East Asia, presented by authors from these countries and territories (China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan). The scholars bring forward the cultural complexities and conflicts involved in their diverse encounters with new music technology and modern aesthetics. How electronic music attracted the interest of composers from East Asia is quite varied - while composers and artists in Japan delved into new sounds and music techniques and fostered electronic music quite early on; political, sociological, and artistic conditions pre-empted the adoption of electronic music techniques in China until the last two decades of the twentieth century. Korean and Taiwanese perspectives contribute to this rare opportunity to re-examine, under a radically different set of cultural preconditions, the sweeping musical transformation that similarly consumed the West. Special light is shed on prominent composers, such as Sukhi Kang, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Toru Takemitsu, and Xiaofu Zhang. Recent trends and new directions which are observed in these countries are also addressed, and the volume shows how the modern fusion of music and technology is triangulated by a depth of culture and other social forces. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Music Review.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2019
First published:	2020
Editors:	Marc Battier • Kenneth Fields
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	206
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-33893-0
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-367-33893-9
Barcode:	9780367338930

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