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Orientalism and the Music of Asian Immigrant Communities in California, 1924-1945

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ID14801970
AuthorsMina Yang (0000-0001-9606-5359, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume19
Issue4
Pages385
Publication date2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Music (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0734-4392 • E-ISSN: 1945-2349
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/3052418
OpenAlexW2316843948
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited1

California experienced tremendous growth at the end of the nineteenth century, followed by even more astonishing population booms in the first decades of the twentieth.1 During these boom years, recently minted powerbrokers consolidated their wealth and built much of the cultural infrastructures of Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as of other smaller cities throughout the state. The University of California, Berkeley (founded in 1868), University of Southern California (1880), Los Angeles State Normal School, now the University of California, Los Angeles (1882), and Stanford University (1891) are among the dozens of educational institutions that sprouted up during the late nineteenth century and ballooned in the next few decades as their enrollments surged alongside the expanding population. Musical institutions soon followed: the Los Angeles Symphony was started in 1898; the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1911; the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1919; the San Francisco Opera in 1923; and several music departments and schools of music began offering advanced professional training in performance and composition at the turn of the century. Even as European-derived concert and operatic traditions were becoming integrated into the civic arenas of these Western urban centers-with the construction of lavish

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Unique citing works4
Citations per year0,24
Citation span2009 - 2020 (12)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 2

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