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Listening to China - Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839 (Hardcover)
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Listening to China - Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839 (Hardcover)
Series: New Material Histories of Music
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From bell ringing to fireworks, gongs to cannon salutes, a dazzling
variety of sounds and soundscapes marked the China encountered by
the West around 1800. These sounds were gathered by diplomats,
trade officials, missionaries, and other travelers and transmitted
back to Europe, where they were reconstructed in the imaginations
of writers, philosophers, and music historians such as
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, and Charles Burney.
Thomas Irvine gathers these stories in Listening to China,
exploring how the sonic encounter with China shaped perceptions of
Europe's own musical development. Through these stories, Irvine not
only investigates how the Sino-Western encounter sounded, but also
traces the West's shifting response to China. As the trading
relationships between China and the West broke down, travelers and
music theorists abandoned the vision of shared musical approaches,
focusing instead on China's noisiness and sonic disorder and
finding less to like in its music. At the same time, Irvine
reconsiders the idea of a specifically Western music history,
revealing that it was comparison with China, the great "other,"
that helped this idea emerge. Ultimately, Irvine draws attention to
the ways Western ears were implicated in the colonial and imperial
project in China, as well as to China's importance to the
construction of musical knowledge during and after the European
Enlightenment. Timely and original, Listening to China is a
must-read for music scholars and historians of China alike.
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