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Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". xiv, 269pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Price sticker to rear cover. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories, and classical music performance competitions. In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan at the age of three. Yoshihara shows how a confluence of culture, politics and commerce after the war made classical music a staple in middle-class households, established Yamaha as the world's largest producer of pianos and gave the Suzuki method of music training an international clientele. Soon, talented musicians from Japan, China and South Korea were flocking to the United States to…
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Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music Paperback - 2008
by Mari Yoshihara
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- Title Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
- Author Mari Yoshihara
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Temple University Press, Philadelphia
- Date 2008-09-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781592133338 / 1592133339
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.62 x 5.58 x 0.69 in (21.89 x 14.17 x 1.75 cm)
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- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Dewey Decimal Code 780.899
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