Cultural revolution and political ambivalence in Zhao Xiaosheng’s Two Ballades for piano solo

The ascendancy of China’s Cultural Revolution led to a purge of the rightists, including musicians. This article unveils composer Zhao Xiaosheng’s emotional entanglement of fear and suppressed hostility toward the revolution, reflected in the political and artistic ambivalence in his two ballades fo...

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Main Authors: Ke, Xue, Loo, Fung Ying, Loo, Fung Chiat, Xiaohang, Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana 2021
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/96575/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
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description The ascendancy of China’s Cultural Revolution led to a purge of the rightists, including musicians. This article unveils composer Zhao Xiaosheng’s emotional entanglement of fear and suppressed hostility toward the revolution, reflected in the political and artistic ambivalence in his two ballades for solo piano composed after his father’s death.
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spelling upm.eprints-965752023-01-11T07:11:15Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/96575/ Cultural revolution and political ambivalence in Zhao Xiaosheng’s Two Ballades for piano solo Ke, Xue Loo, Fung Ying Loo, Fung Chiat Xiaohang, Wang The ascendancy of China’s Cultural Revolution led to a purge of the rightists, including musicians. This article unveils composer Zhao Xiaosheng’s emotional entanglement of fear and suppressed hostility toward the revolution, reflected in the political and artistic ambivalence in his two ballades for solo piano composed after his father’s death. University of Ljubljana 2021 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/96575/1/ABSTRACT.pdf Ke, Xue and Loo, Fung Ying and Loo, Fung Chiat and Xiaohang, Wang (2021) Cultural revolution and political ambivalence in Zhao Xiaosheng’s Two Ballades for piano solo. Muzikoloski Zbornik, 57 (1). 149 - 175. ISSN 0580-373X; ESSN: 2350-4242 https://journals.uni-lj.si/MuzikoloskiZbornik/article/view/9488 10.4312/mz.57.1.149-175
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