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Volume 3, Issue 2
University of Turin
Published: 2019 ,
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GABRIELE MARINO. (2019). The Musical Marco Polo. Sketches of "Otheness" fom Ching to the West (and backwards). Critical Theory, 3(2), 5-29..
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GABRIELE MARINO. (2019). The Musical Marco Polo. Sketches of "Otheness" fom Ching to the West (and backwards). Critical Theory, 3(2), 5-29.. DOI:
Thanks to a series of case studies ranging from classical music (Giacomo Puccini's Turandot)
to Modernist avant-garde and contemporary popular music (John Zorn's
Naked City
protest singer-songwriter Cui Jian
underground performer Yan Jun
techno producer Tzusing)
investigated through literature review and textual analysis
as well as interviews
the paper aims at addressing the perception of Chinese music and its influence in Western cultures
with particular regard to the Italian context. At least four main discoursive tropes can be found: "blurriness" "derivation" "extremeness"
and "technique".
China cultural mediation musical genres popular music semiotics
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