Ling Yang

Ling Yang

November 05,  2024

Feng Changchun, History of modern Chinese music, Musical trend, Commentary.

As a book review of Feng Changchun's "The Thoughts of Music in Modern China" (New Edition), this article briefly sorts out, responds to, and evaluates the ideological path in the book, providing scholars studying music history with a path to observe history and ideas for constructing an artistic theoretical discourse system. The new edition refines the historical facts on the basis of the old edition, and enhances the objectivity and integrity of historical data. This book uses the research methods of dialectical materialism and historical materialism to construct the evolution process of Chinese modern music trends. By closely combining the thinking methods of historical criticism and aesthetic criticism, the book enumerates the historical views of thoughts such as music aesthetic education, quintessence of Chinese culture, improvement of national music, and national salvation music that have been raised by overseas Chinese under the influence of Western culture, and interprets the attribute of "historical theory" that "history leads theory, history has theory, and theory comes from history".

© 2024, the Authors. Published by ISCCAC

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