Chinatown, Whose Chinatown?Defining America's Borders with Musical Orientalism

Garrett, Charles

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“…For a fuller and profitable exploration of the ways in which orientalist tropes have worked through music see Charles Hiroshi Garrett, “Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Defining America's Borders with Musical Orientalism,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 57/1 (Spring 2004): 119–74.…”

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Rekindling Ancient Values: The Influence of Chinese Music and Aesthetics on Harry Partch

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2010

J Soc American Mus

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Scholarship on American composer Harry Partch (1901–74) has long focused on the composer's use of Greek musical ideals as the basis of his aesthetic, but little attention has been paid to China, a nation with which Partch had familial ties and with which he claimed an affinity. Using Partch's published writings, along with unpublished manuscripts, letters, and interviews, this article repositions China's role in the development of Harry Partch's music and aesthetic. By surveying his early experiences with Cantonese opera, his early expositions of his theoretical thinking, and his first full-scale composition, a setting of seventeen poems by Li Po, it demonstrates that China symbolized an alternative path. China's musical traditions were tied directly to the spoken word and featured integration of the arts through ritual, and thus for Partch presented a way to renew Western music. Through the Chinese musical quotations that reside in several of his works, the article also shows that, despite his later protests to the contrary, Chinese music both informed and shaped his music. Finally, it suggests that only by exploring the implications of China in his music can we fully understand Partch's compositional aesthetic.

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“…Often, as in this dissertation, these kinds of positionality do not so much require acts of balancing between discrete and disparate disciplinary (and extra-disciplinary) footholds, but rather may offer an open and intentionally unresolved acknowledgment of the complex and multiple social locations, relation to the practices at issue-an incorrect implication that would obscure the point being made about this musical and performative discourse as such. For an exemplary study on the different topic of how one song could signify differently at different times, see Garrett (2004).…”

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“…Brown 2003;Moon 2002, especially 256-323). A very recent study centered on the trajectory of one song, "Chinatown, My Chinatown," is Garrett (2004). 8.…”

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“…Jean Schwartz (music) and William Jerome (lyrics), "Chinatown, My Chinatown," New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1910. For a recent-and excellentarticle using this song as a means of traversing many topics relevant here, see Garrett (2004).…”

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“…Among these are timbral practices that represented not just a Chinese/Japanese orient but also South or West Asian and North African ones (e.g., in "Hindustan," "Moonlight on the Ganges," "Song of India," and pieces on Egyptian topics), and crossings of orientalist and "jazz" references. The last topic is documented in records of pieces including "Chinatown, My Chinatown" (see Garrett 2004), "Japanese Sandman," "Poor Butterfly," and "China Boy"; post-1930 recordings of these works also were consulted, but are set aside below in order to maintain temporal focus. 2.…”

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