François Ravary SJ and a Sino-European Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai

David Francis Urrows (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2021 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-7461-8 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This book reveals the story of François Ravary, Jesuit missionary, musician, and organ builder. The mastermind behind the construction of the bamboo organs of nineteenth-century Shanghai, Ravary’s unpublished letters from China present a vivid picture of the excitement and crises surrounding the Roman Catholic mission in the often-violent integration of global space of this time. Focusing on an individual life, this study adds needed perspective to histories of the treaty-port era. By shifting the inquiry towards a nuanced, empirical, and refocused evaluation of the landscape, Ravary is revealed as a humanist in the Christian tradition, curious about Chinese society and culture, as well as the force behind China’s first brass band, first school orchestra, and other landmarks of Sino-European musical convergence. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in nineteenth-century China studies, cultural histories, and the diffusion of Western art practices.

David Francis Urrows is a historical musicologist and composer. Between 1989 and 2018, he taught at Hong Kong Baptist University, where he established the Pipe Organ in China Project (www.organcn.org). He has also served on the faculties of the University of Massachusetts, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus. The editor of the critical edition of the music of Otto Dresel (1826–1890), he has also published on topics ranging from Hildegard of Bingen to Andrew Lloyd Webber. In addition, he is the author of several books, including Keys to the Kingdom: A History of the Pipe Organ in China (2017), and editor of several volumes in the Word and Music Studies series.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.10.2021
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5275-7461-X / 152757461X
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-7461-8 / 9781527574618
Zustand	Neuware