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1 online resource (xxii, 286 pages) |
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online resource cr |
Contents |
China: east is east -- The Opium Wars -- The influence of early twentieth-century technology -- Shanghai in the 1920s-1930s: the joint was jumpin -- International jazz musicians flock to Shanghai: 1920s-1930s -- The formation of all-Chinese jazz bands -- The Japanese invasion -- Jazz and individual freedom of expression -- The influence of mid-twentieth-century technologies on the expansion of jazz in China -- First a trickle, then a flood: jazz musicians perform in China from all over -- Martin Fleischer, godfather of jazz, and Liu Yuan, so-called father of jazz in early post-Mao Beijing -- Liu Sola: China's musically eclectic composer -- The Beijing jazz scene -- Beijing's leading indigenous and expat jazz musicians -- Shanghai's jazz venues -- Shanghai's leading indigenous & expat jazz musicians -- Jazz education in China -- Jazz in China in the twenty-first century. |
ISBN |
9781496818034 (electronic bk.) |
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1496818032 (electronic bk.) |
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9781496818003 |
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1496818008 |
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9781496818010 |
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1496818016 |
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9781496818027 |
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1496818024 |
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9781496817990 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781496818553 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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1496818555 |
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