Title
Culture, music education, and the Chinese dream in mainland China / Wai-Chung Ho.
ISBN
9789811075339 (electronic book)
9811075336 (electronic book)
9789811075322
9811075328
Published
Singapore : Springer, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-10-7533-9 doi
Call Number
MT3.C5
Dewey Decimal Classification
780.71/051
Summary
This book focuses on the rapidly changing sociology of music as manifested in Chinese society and Chinese education. It examines how social changes and cultural politics affect how music is currently being used in connection with the Chinese dream. While there is a growing trend toward incorporating the Chinese dream into school education and higher education, there has been no scholarly discussion to date. The combination of cultural politics, transformed authority relations, and officially approved songs can provide us with an understanding of the official content on the Chinese dream that is conveyed in today?s Chinese society, and how these factors have influenced the renewal of values-based education and practices in school music education in China. Ambitious in scope, the book explores the socio-historical and political complexities underpinning music education in mainland China. Based upon an impressive mix of scholarly literature, official documents, text books and interviews with music teachers in Beijing, it represents a major contribution to the field of international and comparative research in music education. Dr. Gordon Cox, Co-Editor (with Robin Stevens), The Origins and Foundations of Music Education: International Perspectives (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2017). It is rare to come across research and scholarship in music education with so wide a vision and so acute a political sensibility as this book. Wai-Chung Ho, already internationally renowned as an expert on Chinese music education, has excelled herself in this masterful analysis. The book will be of interest not only to specialists in the field of Chinese music education itself, but to anyone concerned about relationships between music, society, policy and education across a range of contexts. Professor Lucy Green, Emerita Professor of Music Education, UCL Institute of Education, University College of London, UK Understanding of the relationship between the Chinese Dream, soft power and the deployment of culture, in particular music, in community and school music education in China to reconstruct China as a nation is of the utmost importance at this time. Professor Ruth Wright, Music Education, Don Wright Faculty of Music, Western University Canada, Canada.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 11, 2018)
Series
Cultural studies and transdisciplinarity in education ; 7.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9789811075322
Chapter 1. Introduction: Dream, Culture, Politics of Memory, and Power in Education
Chapter 2. Exhibiting the Past: The Politics of Nationalism, Historical Memory, and Memory Practices in China?s Culture and Education
Chapter 3: Power, Public Diplomacy, and Cultural Diplomacy in China?s Education: From Soft power to the Chinese Dream
Chapter 4. Propaganda Songs in Music Education: Between Chinese Nationalism and Chinese Socialism
Chapter 5. The Confucian Value of Harmony in Music Education in Relation to Songs
Chapter 6. The Rise of Individualistic Values, Social Change, Popular Culture, and Depoliticization: Challenges to Music Education in Relation to Songs
Chapter 7. Critical Perspectives on Values Education in China?s School Music Education in a Changing Society: A Study of Beijing in the Global Age
Chapter 8. Conclusion and Implications: Values and Practices in Achieving the Chinese Dream in School Music Education.
