Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music

In the first book to account for the growing prominence of Asians in the world of Western classical music, Mari Yoshihara grapples with the significance of this trend. This is a book about the about the origins of a social and cultural phenomenon, but it is also about the lives and work of individual musicians devoted to their art.
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Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music

In the first book to account for the growing prominence of Asians in the world of Western classical music, Mari Yoshihara grapples with the significance of this trend. This is a book about the about the origins of a social and cultural phenomenon, but it is also about the lives and work of individual musicians devoted to their art.
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Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music

Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music

by Mari Yoshihara
Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music

Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music

by Mari Yoshihara

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In the first book to account for the growing prominence of Asians in the world of Western classical music, Mari Yoshihara grapples with the significance of this trend. This is a book about the about the origins of a social and cultural phenomenon, but it is also about the lives and work of individual musicians devoted to their art.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781592133321
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mari Yoshihara is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.She is the author of Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism.

Table of Contents


Preface     vii
Introduction: A Rising Scale in Relative Minor     i
Early Lessons in Globalization     11
Voices     49
The Roots and Routes of Asian Musicians     62
Playing Gender     100
Class Notes     131
Voices     166
A Voice of One's Own     187
Conclusion: Musicians First     225
Acknowledgments     235
Notes     239
Selected Bibliography     255
Index     263
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