Hon-Lun Helan Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 8815952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hon-Lun Helan Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hon-Lun Helan |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG H H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Musical Autobiographing of the Chinese Composer Wang Xilin
This study focuses on the Chinese composer WANG Xilin’s (b. 1936) acts of musical autobiographing by drawing on two concepts: (1) “all art is autobiographical”; (2) musical autobiography is a self-performance in flux. I unravel how and why the composer has devoted himself to on-going self-initiated life-writings not only in music but also through other forms of autobiographical acts, memoirs, writings, interviews, online talks, letters, and even …
Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism, and Nationalism
This article examines the meaning of Western music performances in interwar Shanghai through the theoretical framework of performativity that originated in John Austin's speech act and Judith Butler's notion of identity as performed. The early concerts of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra (SMO), I suggest, were an assertion of settler sovereignty in a treaty port such as Shanghai. Therefore, Chinese musicians performing Western music – propagated …
Acousmatic listening and beyond
Networking the Russian Diaspora
Networking the Russian Diaspora is a fascinating and timely study of interwar Shanghai. Aside from the vacated Orthodox Church in the former French Concession where most Russian émigrés resided, Shanghai today displays few signs of the bustling settlement of those years. Russian musicians established the first opera company in China, as well as choirs, bands, and ensembles to play for their own and other communities. Russian musicians were the co…
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Acousmatic listening and beyond
Networking the Russian Diaspora
Networking the Russian Diaspora is a fascinating and timely study of interwar Shanghai. Aside from the vacated Orthodox Church in the former French Concession where most Russian émigrés resided, Shanghai today displays few signs of the bustling settlement of those years. Russian musicians established the first opera company in China, as well as choirs, bands, and ensembles to play for their own and other communities. Russian musicians were the co…
Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism, and Nationalism
This article examines the meaning of Western music performances in interwar Shanghai through the theoretical framework of performativity that originated in John Austin's speech act and Judith Butler's notion of identity as performed. The early concerts of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra (SMO), I suggest, were an assertion of settler sovereignty in a treaty port such as Shanghai. Therefore, Chinese musicians performing Western music – propagated …
The Musical Autobiographing of the Chinese Composer Wang Xilin
This study focuses on the Chinese composer WANG Xilin’s (b. 1936) acts of musical autobiographing by drawing on two concepts: (1) “all art is autobiographical”; (2) musical autobiography is a self-performance in flux. I unravel how and why the composer has devoted himself to on-going self-initiated life-writings not only in music but also through other forms of autobiographical acts, memoirs, writings, interviews, online talks, letters, and even …
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Musical (3 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Nationalism (2 works) · Politics (2 works)