The politics and poetics of Sister Drum: “Tibetan” music in the global marketplace

Global goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 99-119

  Upton, Janet L ^a  

^a Trace Foundation   (United States)

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References (49)

1. Mike Levin, “Dadawa Getting Big Warner Push,” Billboard, 1 July 1995, 1, 120.
2. Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Pop CD Leads to Political Fallout: Critics Say the Haunting ‘Sister Drum’ Tramples on Feelings of Tibetans,” Eastern Express, 26 January 1996, 16.
3. Zhou Lin, “Ajiegu weihe chengwei zouxiang shijie de diyi zhongwen CD?" (Why Has Sister Drum Become the First Chinese-Language CD to Move toward the World?), Guangming ribao (Enlightenment Daily), 6 September 1995, 10.
4. Peter Bishop, The Myth of Shangri-La: Tibet, Travel Writing, and the Western Creation of a Sacred Landscape (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989);
5. Donald S. Lopez Jr., Prisoners of Shangri-la: Tibetan Buddhism and the West (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998);
6. Lopez Jr., "‘Lamaism’ and the Disappearance of Tibet,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 38, 1 (1996): 3-25;
7. Lopez Jr., “Foreigner at the Lama’s Feet,” in Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism under Colonialism, ed. Donald S. Lopez Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 251-95;
8. Lopez Jr., “New Age Orientalism: The Case of Tibet,” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review 3, 3 (1994): 37-43.
9. Dalai Lama, in John Kennedy Jr., “Lost World of a Living Buddha (Interview with the Dalai Lama),” George Magazine (November 1997), 98-106.
10. Dadawa (Zhu Zheqin), He Xuntian, He Xunyou, and Lu Yimin, liner notes for the compact disc Ajiegu (Sister Drum) (Taipei: Feidie Changpian [UFO Records], 1995), 2.
11. Dadawa et al., liner notes, Sister Drum, 8.
12. See Levin, “Dadawa Getting Big Warner Push.”
13. Qin Wen, “Ajiegu zai guoji changpianjie yinqi fanxiang” (Sister Drum Evokes Reaction in International Music Circles), Renmin ribao (People’s Daily) 27 August 1995, 4;
14. Zhou, “Why Has Sister Drum Become the First,” 10.
15. Dadawa et al., liner notes, Sister Drum, 9.
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17. Dadawa et al., liner notes, Sister Drum, 9.
18. Dadawa et al., liner notes, Sister Drum, 6.
19. Dadawa et al., liner notes, Sister Drum, 6.
20. David Sprague, “Dadawa’s Exotic Sound Has Global Appeal: Sire’s Successful ‘Sister Drum’ Reaches U.S.,” Billboard, 16 December 1995, 13.
21. Zhou, “Why Has Sister Drum Become,” 10.
22. Zhou, “Why Has Sister Drum Become,” 10.
23. Dadawa et al., liner notes, Sister Drum, 3.
24. Dadawa et al., liner notes, Sister Drum, 3.
25. Dadawa et al., liner notes, Sister Drum, 10.
26. Dadawa et al., liner notes, Sister Drum, 13-14.
27. Dadawa et al., liner notes, Sister Drum, 8.
28. Dadawa et al., liner notes, Sister Drum, 4.
29. Dadawa et al., liner notes, Sister Drum
30. Tashi Dawa, A Soul in Bondage: Stories from Tibet (Beijing: Panda Books, 1992).
31. Nima Zeren, Nemazering: The Collection of Paintings by Sichuan Minority Artists (Chengdu:Sichuan Minzu Chubanshe [Sichuan Nationalities’ Publishing House], 1994).
32. Ba Huang, Temptations of Sunshine and Wilderness (Chengdu: Sichuan Art Publishing House, 1994);
33. Gao Bo quoted in Wan Lila, “International Artist Returns to Roots: Gao Bo,” Beijing Scene, 21 November 1996, 4-8.
34. Ma Lihua, Zou guo xizang (Walking across Tibet), 3rd ed. (Beijing: Zuojia Chubanshe [Author’s Publishing House], 1994).
35. Liao Dongfan, “Caidan Zhouma ge bu lao” (The Songs of Caidan Zhouma Are Not Old), Renmin ribao (People’s Daily), 7 October 1995, 5.
36. See for example, Dru Gladney, “Representing Nationality in China: Refiguring Majority/Minority Identities,” Journal of Asian Studies 53, 1 (1994): 92-123.
37. Peter Chang, “Tan Dun’s String Quartet Feng-Ya-Song: Some Ideological Issues,” Asian Music 22, 2 (1991): 135.
38. “Heaven” (Tianlai) (1986)
39. “Dream in Four Parts” (Meng si ze) (1987)
40. Li Xi’an, “Wenhua yu guoyue de zhanglichang jiegou” [Cultural Metamorphosis and the Structure of the Tension Field in Chinese Music], in Zhongguo xin yinyue shih lunji:Guoyue sixiang [History of New Music in China: The Development of Chinese Music], ed. Liu Ching-chih and Wu Ganbo [Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 1994], 114-15.
41. See “Chinese Star Hopes to Make a Chinese Language of International Pop,” article distributed online by Agence France-Presse, 26 January 1996, obtained through Newsbank Inc., Global News Bank, 8 February 1997.
42. Sprague, “Dadawa’s Exotic Sound,” 13.
43. Tibet Support Group UK and the Tibetan Community in Britain, “Dadawa’s Sister Drum Causes International Outrage among Tibetans” (joint press release, 27 February 1996).
44. Tibet Support Group UK and the Tibetan Community in Britain, “Dadawa’s Sister Drum Causes International Outrage among Tibetans” (joint press release, 27 February 1996).
45. Jon Pareles, “Dadawa: ‘Sister Drum,'" review of Sister Drum, (recording) New York Times, 6 February 1996.
46. Ken Lee, “Muse CD Reviews: Dadawa ‘Sister Drum,'" (1996), , (11 February 1997).
47. Lopez Jr., Prisoners of Shangri-la, and “New Age Orientalism.”
48. Bishop, The Myth of Shangri-La.
49. An interesting selection of Chinese dissidents’ views on the Tibet issue appears in Tibet through Dissident Chinese Eyes: Essays on Self-Determination, ed. Cao Changching and James Seymour (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997).