{"id":1064,"date":"2009-10-24T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/10\/wu-man-and-ancient-chinese-bluegrass.html"},"modified":"2009-10-24T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T21:32:00","slug":"wu-man-and-ancient-chinese-bluegrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/10\/wu-man-and-ancient-chinese-bluegrass.html","title":{"rendered":"Wu Man and Ancient Chinese Bluegrass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SuOCzYTKszI\/AAAAAAAAAdg\/AJFC8v3ilMo\/s1600-h\/home-portrait.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SuOCzYTKszI\/AAAAAAAAAdg\/AJFC8v3ilMo\/s320\/home-portrait.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>THIS may sound crazy, but this chick kicks ass! if you doubt me, check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=86agpZPN6V0\">this<\/a> out. or consider the fact that avant-jazz madman henry threadgill caught a gig of wu man&#8217;s back in the early &#8217;90s, soon after she&#8217;d arrived in the states from china, and asked her to play on his next record.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>today i have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-et-wu-man24-2009oct24,0,340441.story\">a piece<\/a> in the LATimes on wu, who plays the pipa, a two-thousand-year-old string instrument, a sort of mandolin\/banjo, with amazingly contrasting styles. that is, it can be the most lyrical as well as the harshest of lutes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>her admirers include yo-yo ma, philip glass and the kronos quartet, with whom she&#8217;s about to debut a new piece in new york.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>wu plays on tuesday as part of an important festival of chinese music put on by both carnegie hall and the philharmonic society of orange county. she&#8217;s playing not western classical or sacred chinese music, but as part of rustic &#8220;family bands&#8221; she has brought over from china.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>dean corey, the society&#8217;s southern-bred boss, remembers working in appalachia and seeing wild family groups come out of the woods to make bluegrass. &#8220;that&#8217;s basically what this is,&#8221; he says.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wumanpipa.org\/\">wumanpipa.org<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS may sound crazy, but this chick kicks ass! if you doubt me, check this out. or consider the fact that avant-jazz madman henry threadgill caught a gig of wu man&#8217;s back in the early &#8217;90s, soon after she&#8217;d arrived in the states from china, and asked her to play on his next record. today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[423,54,424,379,144,422],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-china","7":"category-classical-music","8":"category-henry-threadgill","9":"category-kronos-quartet","10":"category-orange-co","11":"category-wu-man","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}