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A proliferation and practice of Chinese orchestral music in Singapore from the 1950s to the mid-1980s
Author
Heng, Lena
Supervisor
Dairianathan, Eugene
Abstract
This dissertation attempts to explore the practice and proliferation of Chinese orchestral music in Singapore and how it features in the re/production of the social and musical space in Singapore, during the early days of Chinese orchestral music development from the 1950s to the early 1980s. Henri Lefebvre's conceptualisation of space as a changing, reactive social representation is used to provide the framework for which the practice of Chinese orchestral music in Singapore could be studied and evaluated. Using Lefebvre's framework of spatial realities, how the practice created a differential space and the interaction of such in an ongoing production and reproduction of the spatial realities concerning Chinese orchestral music within the society of Singapore could be explored. With respect to Chinese orchestral music, these few levels of realities will be studied: at the first level, the perceived reality or how the practitioners and the receivers of Chinese orchestral music perceive or look at the practice of Chinese orchestral music; at another level, understanding the conceived reality or how policy-makers, practitioners and the community of Chinese orchestral music receivers create the idea and beliefs of Chinese orchestral music; and finally, the lived-in reality which is the actual practice of Chinese orchestral music, the interaction between the function of the practice and the ideas and beliefs of this form of practice. Sociopolitical changes through this period of time interacted and reacted with this practice and the spatial representation of it is created and changed.
Date Issued
2016
Call Number
M1001 Hen
Date Submitted
2016