Muziek en politiek in China

Id:KUL_3H060765

K.U.Leuven

The power of ‘correct’ music as a harmonising factor in society and of ‘bad music’ as a disturbing and potentially dangerous factor was alreadytheoretically asserted in China’s earliest official texts on music.This research addresses the question if and how the Confucians’ fear for ‘Dionysian’, orgiastic or shamanistic elements in general and more particularly in music, influenced the attribution of the labels ‘correct’ and ‘bad’. Such elements seemed to bring the performers in direct contactwith the spirit world and with ancestors, which was a threat to the Confucian elite, whose political power was based on the monopoly of a more rational contact with ‘heaven’.A diachronic analysis of both musical theory and practice will reveal which elements from China’s own musical history or from contacts with Huns, Mongols, Tibetans and Manchus were considered to be potentially dangerous and how the Confucian discourse on music influenced the musical practice (ritual music, court music, folk mus

Timeframe:

1 Oct 2006 → 1 Oct 2010

Keywords:

China Modern China Ming Pre-Qin Cultural Encountee Philosophy

Discipline codes:

• HUMANITIES (H)
  • Philosophy
    • History of philosophy
  • Theology
    • History of the christian church
  • Philology
    • Languages and literatures of South and South-East Asia, Chinese

Classifications:

• Ph. D.