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Building a Music-Mediated Imagined Chinese Community: A Content Analysis of Music Acts at China Central Television's Chunwan, 1983-2016

Building a Music-Mediated Imagined Chinese Community: A Content Analysis of Music Acts at China Central Television's Chunwan, 1983-2016

Tao Fu, Xingyu Wang
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781522519867|ISBN10: 1522519866|EISBN13: 9781522519874
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1986-7.ch004
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Fu, Tao, and Xingyu Wang. "Building a Music-Mediated Imagined Chinese Community: A Content Analysis of Music Acts at China Central Television's Chunwan, 1983-2016." Music as a Platform for Political Communication, edited by Uche T. Onyebadi, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 70-88. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1986-7.ch004

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Fu, T. & Wang, X. (2017). Building a Music-Mediated Imagined Chinese Community: A Content Analysis of Music Acts at China Central Television's Chunwan, 1983-2016. In U. Onyebadi (Ed.), Music as a Platform for Political Communication (pp. 70-88). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1986-7.ch004

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Fu, Tao, and Xingyu Wang. "Building a Music-Mediated Imagined Chinese Community: A Content Analysis of Music Acts at China Central Television's Chunwan, 1983-2016." In Music as a Platform for Political Communication, edited by Uche T. Onyebadi, 70-88. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1986-7.ch004

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Abstract

This chapter investigates how music acts performed at China Central Television's (CCTV) annual variety show, Chunwan, are used as an ideological package for political communications in China. The authors argue that the Communist Party of China uses songs as the medium for the grand narrative of a shared identity. Chunwan, this televised event, helps construct an imagined community of mainlanders of different social backgrounds, Chinese from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese. Music, disseminated via China's national TV broadcaster, serves as an ideological state apparatus that consolidates the legitimacy of the Party.

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