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This list of music museums offers a guide to museums worldwide that specialize in the domain of music. These institutions are dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of music-related history, including the lives and works of prominent musicians, the evolution and variety of musical instruments, and other aspects of the world of music.
The Association for Asian Performance went through several name iterations from its formation in 1965 through the present. From 1969 to 1987, different titles and organization intentions were chosen following a unanimous 1969 split of the Afro-Asian Theatre Project into separate cultural organizations, structural changes and debt failures with their first sponsor, the American Educational ...
Asian-American theatre emerged in the 1960s and the 1970s with the foundation of four theatre companies: East West Players in Los Angeles, Asian American Theatre Workshop (later renamed Asian American Theater Company) in San Francisco, Theatrical Ensemble of Asians (later renamed Northwest Asian American Theatre) in Seattle, and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York City.
Theatre of China has a long and complex history. Traditional Chinese theatre, generally in the form of Chinese opera , is musical in nature. Chinese theatre can trace its origin back a few millennia to ancient China, but the Chinese opera started to develop in the 12th century.
Asian Americans have a documented history of making music in America beginning in the middle of the 19th and early 20th century, [1] alongside other arts and entertainment.As with Asian American literature, [2] much of Asian American history including in music, is in the process of being recovered. [3]
Mongolian Theatre Museum (Mongolian: Монголын Театрын Музей) was founded in 1991 to preserve and present the traditions and artifacts of the performing arts in Mongolia and to do research in this area. [1]
Asian American jazz is a musical genre and movement in the United States begun in the 20th century by Asian American jazz musicians that has produced a number of very prominent artists. Along with Desi Hip Hop who has many origins including the US it is currently one of only two musical genres to have been created by Asian Americans or been ...
Cantonese Opera Art Museum. Before widespread formal education, Cantonese opera taught morals and messages to its audiences rather than being solely entertainment. The government used theatre to promote the idea of be loyal to the emperor and love the country (忠君愛國). Thus, the government examined the theatre frequently and would ban any ...