Half Sound, Half Philosophy : Aesthetics, Politics, and History of China's Sound Art /: Aesthetics, Politics, and History of China's Sound Art. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jing Wang.
• Authors: Wang, Jing
• Contents: AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Sound, Resonance, the Philosophy of QiAncient Chinese AcousticsThe Philosophy of QiSound Explained Through Qi-PhilosophyConclusion2. A Brief History of Sound in China's Contemporary Art Conditions and Precursors New Media Art After 2000 Sound Art after 20003. A Brief History of Electronic and Experimental Music in China The Electronic Instrument Builders Academic Electronic Music: Inauguration Non-Academic Electronic and Experimental Music Conclusion4. Shanshui-Thought in Experimental Music Practice Shanshui-Thought: An Overview Shanshui: The Existential and the Epistemological Making Shanshui-Thought Audible: Two Aesthetic QualitiesConclusion 5. In Praise of Strange Sounds of the Shamanistic The Minor Tradition in Ancient Chinese Culture: Shamanism and Chimei Wangliang Acoustic Cultural Heritage and NationalismHuanghu and Its Two Aesthetic Operations of Resonance and WithdrawalConclusion6. Ubiquitous Control: From Cosmic Bell, Loudspeakers to Immanent Humming Zhang Peili and Anti-monumentality of Sound Zhang Ding and the Military-entertainment-art Complex Liu Chuang and the (Im)Possibility of Not Being Governed Conclusion: Qi-Thinking, or Cybernetics: A way of Going OnGlossary of TermsBibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: Anthropology; Music industry; Music -- Ethnomusicology; History -- Asia -- China; World music
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501333491; 1501333496
• Related ISBNs: 9781501333484
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