2017/08/05 |
Keeping China’s Soundscape in Check: Censorship in Chinese Popular Music
Music, once seen as the embodiment of dynastic power in feudal China and used as propaganda since 1949, is closely monitored.
Hon-Lun Yang
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Hon-Lun Helan Yang is professor of music at Department of Music, Hong Kong Baptist University. Yang’s research is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, ranging from nineteenth-century American symphonic music to contemporary Chinese music both ‘serious’ and ‘popular’ in style and appeal. She is the co-editor (with Michael Saffle) of the recently released volume China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception (University of Michigan Press, 2017).