As an important part of modern scholarship,the book reviews work as dual roles,i.e.publicity and academic evaluation.Modern Chinese music book reviews developed from the early years of the Republic of China,and the academic reviews appeared in the New Culture Movement.Now we can find about 130 music books review which published before 1949.They can be classified as:1.Introduction and brief review;2.Academic book review;3.Preface and commentary by oth-ers;4.Introductions and review of foreign music books.The academic value of modern Chinese mu-sic book reviews lies in:1.As a"secondary text"of music books,they supply and correct the his-torical events of modern Chinese music;2.As the musical scholarship literary,they are the me-dium for assessing the value of modern academic music research;3.The musical ideas and critical spirit in them have the value as the thinking history which bridge the ancient and the modern times.
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