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ABSTRACT The trend of pursuing higher education abroad in China has resulted in many Chinese musicians immigrating to the United States, Europe, and other Western countries. Among them is a Chinese traditional instrument pipa player, Wu Man, who has achieved great fame. This article analyses the creative life of Wu Man’s and her artistic outputs and thinking from two vantage points: as that of a famous and respected performer of the pipa and as that of a reflective practitioner whose work might be labelled practice as research, or as we term it ‘research for practice’. We draw on contextual analyses of the social and artistic environments that have shaped Wu Man’s career and her ability to integrate ‘authentic’ musical elements and world musics into new compositional and performative techniques. This article foregrounds Wu Man’s voice through personal interviews to showcase the reflexive approach she uses to shape her artistic practice.
期刊介绍：
Articles often emphasise first-hand, sustained engagement with people as music makers, taking the form of ethnographic writing following one or more periods of fieldwork. Typically, ethnographies aim for a broad assessment of the processes and contexts through and within which music is imagined, discussed and made. Ethnography may be synthesised with a variety of analytical, historical and other methodologies, often entering into dialogue with other disciplinary areas such as music psychology, music education, historical musicology, performance studies, critical theory, dance, folklore and linguistics. The field is therefore characterised by its breadth in theory and method, its interdisciplinary nature and its global perspective.
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