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Voices from Chinese rock, past and present tense: social commentary and construction of identity in Yaogun yinyue, from Tiananmen to the present A little noticed French news wire release from Beijing on April 27, 1998, triggered no international diplomatic protests when it stated: A rock musician ......(Continue Reading) Exploring Rock Art: A North American Field Trip; Chinese Shadow Puppet Theater; and Mexico's Day of the Dead. . - A-V/Visual/CD-ROM - audio-visual review EXPLORING ROCK ART: A North American Field Trip; CHINESE SHADOW PUPPET THEATER; and MEXICO'S DAY OF THE DEAD. Three CD-ROMs (Mac/ Win)/$29.95 each. Level: Elementary and Middle School. Pentewa Inte...(Continue Reading)All junk, all the time - rock music - Column Rock music is inherently banal and simplistic. It requires minimal musicianship to play guitar and drums well enough to perform, and can neither enhance ......(Continue Reading)Cui Jian: China's rebel maestro - Music rebels: dissident music then and now - Brief Article Trained as a classical musician--and former member of the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra--Cui Jian is best known however for his courageous, openly political music. While playing trumpet in the Orc...(Continue Reading)A matter of taste? - church and music THE COVER OF the August 1996 Atlantic Monthly announced a Christian cultural revolution: "Giant `full-service' churches are winning millions of `customers' ......(Continue Reading)
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