Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music

By Mari Yoshihara

Book Overview

In the first book to account for the growing prominence of Asians in the world of Western classical music, Mari Yoshihara grapples with the significance of this trend. This is a book about the about the origins of a social and cultural phenomenon, but it is also about the lives and work of individual musicians devoted to their art.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592133320
• ISBN13: 9781592133321
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"