Disseminating Chinese music in New Zealand : Jack Body and China, 1985-2015
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Gong, Hong-Yu
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2015-11
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Body, Jack (1944-2015)
composers
Chinese music in New Zealand
Asian music in New Zealand
ethnomusicologists
composers
Chinese music in New Zealand
Asian music in New Zealand
ethnomusicologists
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Gong, H. (2015, November). Disseminating Chinese Music in New Zealand - Jack Body and China, 1985-2015. Paper presented at International Symposium :Global Perspectives of Chinese Music in the Internet Age, Ningbo University, Zhejiang, China.
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Despite the early presence of Chinese music in the Antipodes in the 1860s, as evidenced by the musical activities of Cantonese miners in the goldfields of Otago, the active dissemination of China’s rich and diverse musical culture did not go beyond the Chinese diaspora until the 1980s when Jack Stanley Body (1944-2015), composer, ethnomusicologist, impresario, and widely acknowledged as the “leading light in awakening New Zealand’s interest in Asian music,” became the single most powerful force in the introduction of China’s multi-faceted musical culture to New Zealand and, later, New Zealand music to China.
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