"The East is Red"

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CATS Chinese Music Collections PODCAST SERIES

CATS HEIDELBERG - CHINESE MUSIC RESEARCH GROUP

7 episodes

5 days ago

The Library of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University holds an extensive collection of musical treasures—recordings, scores, ephemera, and secondary literature on Chinese music. This podcast is set out to introduce you to some of the jewels of these music collections and enjoy the intricacies and beauties of musicking in China …. We begin with a series of 5 podcasts accompanying this year’s CHIME conference in Heidelberg, from October 1-4.

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"The East is Red"

CATS Chinese Music Collections PODCAST SERIES

21 minutes 9 seconds

2 years ago

"The East is Red"

Yuri Sasaki is a Master student enrolled in Transcultural Studies at CATS Heidelberg and also in the Joint Degree Program with Kyoto University in Japan. This podcast is about the song “The East Is Red” which was a highly popular communist propaganda song. The four minute version played at the beginning of the podcast is from a 1964 7" vinyl (see link below).

Links to the songs that are referred to in this podcast:

“DONGFANG HONG” 東方紅

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfmc8rT2AI4

“DONGFANG HONG” BY ZHAO DADI

https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/continuousrevolution/main.php?part=1&chapter=2&media=9#

“THE RED SUN”

https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/continuousrevolution/main.php?part=1&chapter=2&media=8