A book launch and discussion for Lei Ouyang’s
Music as Mao’s Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution
Friday, September 8th, 2023, 4:30-6pm with reception to follow
Swarthmore College, Inn at Swarthmore
10 S Chester Road, Swarthmore, PA
Featuring:
Marié Abe ’01, University of California Berkeley
Resonances of Chindon-ya: Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan (Wesleyan University Press, 2018)
Shalini Ayyagari ’00, University of Pittsburgh
Musical Resilience: Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert (Wesleyan University Press 2022)
Lei Ouyang, Swarthmore College
Music as Mao’s Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution (University of Illinois Press, 2022)
In Conversation with Steven Hopkins (Swarthmore College) and Deborah Wong (University of California Riverside)
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Sponsored by the Aydelotte Foundation & co-sponsored by Asian Studies, Global Studies, Music, Sociology and Anthropology,
and the Advancement Office at Swarthmore College
