Music as Mao's Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution Ouyang Lei X.
Music as Mao's Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution Ouyang Lei X. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) produced propaganda music that still stirs…
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Music as Mao's Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution Ouyang Lei X.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) produced propaganda music that still stirs unease and, at times, evokes nostalgia. Lei X. Interviews combine with ethnographic fieldwork and surveys to explore both the Cultural Revolution's effect on those who lived through it as children and contemporary remembrance of the music created to serve the Maoist regime. Ouyang uses selections from revolutionary songbooks to untangle the complex interactions between memory, trauma, and generational imprinting among those who survived the period of extremes.
She examines essential questions raised by this phenomenon, including: What did the revolutionization look, sound, and feel like? As Ouyang shows, the weaponization of music served an ideological revolution but also revolutionized the senses. What does it take for individuals and groups to