East Is Red

ISBN-13: 9783846596326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 92 str.

Natasha Huang

Opis

This thesis uses "East is Red" as a window through which to look at Cultural Revolution politics and culture. By exploring the relationship between politics and music, and by taking into account the history of revolutionary music in China, it demonstrates how "East is Red" is both a textual and musical example of how the Cultural Revolution was both a result of and a departure from the Communist Revolution leading up to it. This approach stems from the authors background in music and her interest in how ideology is expressed and taught through art and culture, as well as her curiosity towards the replacement of Chinas original national anthem with "East is Red" during the Cultural Revolution.

O autorze

Born in 1986 in Los Angeles to Taiwanese immigrants, Natasha Huang received her education at the University of Southern California, where she double majored in Music and East Asian Languages and Cultures and subsequently obtained a Master's degree in the latter. She completed her thesis in 2008 and has since then pursued a career in music.