Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music Tapa blanda - 2008

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". xiv, 269pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Price sticker to rear cover. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories, and classical music performance competitions. In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan at the age of three. Yoshihara shows how a confluence of culture, politics and commerce after the war made classical music a staple in middle-class households, established Yamaha as the world's largest producer of pianos and gave the Suzuki method of music training an international clientele. Soon, talented musicians from Japan, China and South Korea were flocking to the United States to… Leer más

Temple Univ Pr, 2008. Paperback. New. illustrated edition. 288 pages. 8.62x5.58x0.69 inches.

Temple University Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Paperback / softback. New. Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories and classical music performance competitions. This book looks into the reasons for this phenomenon. It shows how a confluence of culture, politics and commerce after the war made classical music a staple in middle-class households.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.