Half sound, half philosophy : aesthetics, politics, and history of China's sound art / Jing Wang.

• Introduction : Qi-Philosophy ; Sounds as Qi -- Sound, Resonance, the Philosophy of Qi : Ancient Chinese Acoustics ; The Philosophy of Qi ; Sound Explained through Qi-Philosophy ; Conclusion -- A Brief History of Sound in China's Contemporary Art : Conditions and Precursors ; New Media Art after 2000 ; Sound Art after 2000 -- A Brief History of Electronic and Experimental Music in China : The Electronic Instrument Builders ; Academic Electronic Music: Inauguration ; Nonacademic Electronic and Experimental Music ; Conclusion -- Shanshui-Thought in Experimental Music Practices : Shanshui-Thought: An Overview ; Shanshui: The Existential and the Epistemological ; Making Shanshui-Thought Audible: Two Aesthetic Qualities ; Conclusion -- In Praise of Strange Sounds of the Shamanistic : The Minor Tradition in Ancient Chinese Culture: Shamanism and Chimei Wangliang ; Acoustic Cultural Heritage and Nationalism ; Huanghu and Its Two Aesthetic Operations: Resonance and Withdrawal ; Conclusion -- Ubiquitous Control : From Cosmic Bell, Loudspeakers to Immanent Humming : Zhang Peili and Anti-Monumentality of Sound ; Zhang Ding and the Military-Entertainment-Art Complex ; Liu Chuang and the (Im)Possibility of Not Being Governed ; Conclusion - Qi-Thinking, or Cybernetics: A Way of Going On. 

• "Maps the aesthetic, cultural, and socio-economical networks of a variety of sound practices and discourses in contemporary China"-- 

Ämnesord

Ljudkonst  (sao)

Elektronisk musik  (sao)

Experimentell musik  (sao)

Qi (Chinese philosophy)  (LCSH)

Sound (Philosophy)  (LCSH)

Music  -- China -- 21st century -- History and criticism (LCSH)

Music  -- China -- 20th century -- History and criticism (LCSH)

Music  -- China -- Philosophy and aesthetics (LCSH)

Sound art  -- China -- History and criticism (LCSH)

Sound sculpture  (LCSH)

Sound installations (Art)  (LCSH)

Avant-garde (Music)  (LCSH)

Kina  (sao)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Klassifikation

ML336.9 (LCC)

780.951 (DDC)