The making of a successful Chinese instrumentalist in the West: a case study of the pipa player Wu Man

IF 0.2 1区艺术学 0 MUSIC

Ethnomusicology Forum Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/17411912.2022.2055600

Boyu Zhang, C. Lam

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT The trend of pursuing higher education abroad in China has resulted in many Chinese musicians immigrating to the United States, Europe, and other Western countries. Among them is a Chinese traditional instrument pipa player, Wu Man, who has achieved great fame. This article analyses the creative life of Wu Man’s and her artistic outputs and thinking from two vantage points: as that of a famous and respected performer of the pipa and as that of a reflective practitioner whose work might be labelled practice as research, or as we term it ‘research for practice’. We draw on contextual analyses of the social and artistic environments that have shaped Wu Man’s career and her ability to integrate ‘authentic’ musical elements and world musics into new compositional and performative techniques. This article foregrounds Wu Man’s voice through personal interviews to showcase the reflexive approach she uses to shape her artistic practice.

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一个成功的中国乐器演奏家在西方的塑造:琵琶演奏家吴蛮的个案研究

在中国接受高等教育的趋势导致许多中国音乐家移民到美国、欧洲和其他西方国家。其中有一位中国传统乐器琵琶演奏家吴曼，他已经取得了很大的名气。本文从两个角度分析吴蛮的创作生活及其艺术产出和思想:一个是著名的、受人尊敬的琵琶演奏家，另一个是反思性的实践者，她的工作可以被称为实践即研究，或者我们称之为“为实践而研究”。我们借鉴了社会和艺术环境的背景分析，这些环境塑造了吴曼的职业生涯，以及她将“真实”的音乐元素和世界音乐融入新的作曲和表演技巧的能力。本文通过对吴曼的个人访谈，突出吴曼的声音，展示她在塑造艺术实践中所采用的反身性方法。

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Ethnomusicology Forum MUSIC-

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1.10

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25.00%

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期刊介绍： Articles often emphasise first-hand, sustained engagement with people as music makers, taking the form of ethnographic writing following one or more periods of fieldwork. Typically, ethnographies aim for a broad assessment of the processes and contexts through and within which music is imagined, discussed and made. Ethnography may be synthesised with a variety of analytical, historical and other methodologies, often entering into dialogue with other disciplinary areas such as music psychology, music education, historical musicology, performance studies, critical theory, dance, folklore and linguistics. The field is therefore characterised by its breadth in theory and method, its interdisciplinary nature and its global perspective.