The Sound of Shanghai's New Music Movement in New Music and Music Magazine
The New Music Movement was a cultural movement that aimed at creating new music in the 1930s and 1940s in China.In 1946,after the gradual recovery from the victory of the War of Re-sistance Against Japanese,the New Music and Music Magazine were published at the same time and became the main platform for the dissemination of new music culture in Shanghai.The two periodi-cals issued different voices for the New Music Movement,such as Promoting Singing and Introduc-ing Western Music respectively.This reflects not only the differences in the understanding of differ-ent groups of musicians about the current situation and the nationalization of music,but also the dif-ferent views on the development of mass music and the forms choice of music about national defense at that time.The article analyzes the two periodicals on the divergent performance of two groups of musicians in the New Music Movement and summarizes the effective experience of how mass music activities of the time found common ground in the midst of differences.
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