Decentering Musical Modernity: Perspectives on East Asian and European Music History (Paperback)

Frontmatter 1
Content 5
Preface 7
Introduction: Musicology, Musical Modernity, and the Challenges of Entangled History 9
Modernity as Postcolonial Encounter in Korean Music 41
Modernity, Regionality, and Twentieth-Century Symphony: On Jean Sibelius and Yamada Ksaku 63
Music at the Service of Nordic Modernity? Wilhelm Stenhammar's Opening Cantata for the "General Arts and Industries Exhibition" in Stockholm in 1897 87
Different Interpretations of Musical Modernity? Xiao Youmei's Studies in Leipzig and the Foundation of the Modern Chinese Folk Orchestra 123
Traditional Music, Alternative Modernity, and Internal Colonialism: Reassessing the Campaigns for National Music and Folk Songs in Taiwan 145
Reflexivity as Method: A Historiographical Comparison of Finnish Pelimanni Music and Taiwanese Hakka Music 173
Nonsimultaneity of the Simultaneous: Internationalism and Universalism in Postwar Art Music until the 1970s 207
Synchronizing Twentieth-Century Music: A Transnational Reflection 247
Multiple Musical Modernities? Dahlhaus, Eisenstadt, and the Case of Japan 279
Contemplating East Asian Music History in Regional and Global Contexts: On Modernity, Nationalism, and Colonialism 313
General Index 345
Authors 371