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What is ideology?
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A system of ideas about how the world should be
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Politics, religion, law, philosophy, aesthetics, culture
How can music be ideological?
The ideas of beauty
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Why do people make music?
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Self-expression: Music is appropriate to express emotion/experience
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Amusement/ Entertainment
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Music with capitalism/individualism?
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Music can display, rehearse or create power, legitimacy, righteousness,
social/cosmic harmony etc.
For instruction and cultivation of self or others
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Education/socialization
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Cultivation of harmony, social order
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Religious practice
[For ritual hearing, transformation]
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Court Music:
Two philosophical sources:
1) Daoism: legend states founded by mystic Laotzi
2) Confucianism: Kong Zi
“Lead the people with administrative injunctions and keep them orderly
with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a
sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and keep them orderly
through observing ritual
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A tonal order (a system of pitches) as a moral order, or a reflection of that
order
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Dynastic change, tonal reform
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Fixed pitch instruments: sounding image of social order and its stability
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What kinds of order? Hierarchies
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Heaven: earth: humans
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Confucian relationships of filial piety
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Ruler-subject
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Father-son
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Brothers (elder and younger)
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Husband-wife
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Friends
Social structure
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Upper classes(in order)
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Emperor
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Scholar-gentry
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Landlords
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Commoners
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Lower classes:
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Example: Guan Pinghu “Flowing Water” (guqin)
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Military, salves, entertainers, etc.
How could this music aid in self-cultivation?
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Practice, skill development
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“Sound painting,” or music’s program
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Contemplating a scene, the natural elements of that scene
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Harmonics, acoustic, a kind of experimentation
Music and idology in the PRC (1949 and onwards)
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Lau: using music to disseminate political messages… shades of
Confucian thought about music
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Glorify Mao/party, express gratitude
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Commemorate battles and regions assoc. with Civil War
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Promote political/reform campaigns
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Recount class struggle
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Promote unity (esp.among minorities)
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Praise work