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AMS Philadelphia 2009 Abstracts - American Musicological Society

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184 sunday morning <strong>AMS</strong> <strong>Philadelphia</strong> <strong>2009</strong><br />

in both China and the West. Far from simple propaganda, the re-purposing of Western practices<br />

in model opera underscored a revolutionary shift in values. It served the goals of a new<br />

social order that replaced emperors and empresses with workers, peasants, and soldiers. Hence<br />

model opera functioned paradoxically as both mass and avant-garde entertainment.

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