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Rehabilitating ‘bastardized’ minority folk arts

Sep. 12 (Christian Science Monitor): China’s Communist Party – which turned 90 on July 1 – cultivates ethnic performing arts as a way to “spread state propaganda” and make amends for “damage” inflicted on minority cultures during Mao Zedong‘s infamous Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s, writes Helen Rees, an ethnomusicologist.


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