| As a witness of the development of Shanghai's history and society, the Shanghai music publishing business shows a close interaction with the social surroundings. In this essay, the author uses more than 6,000 booklists as refraction angles to analyze the features and effects of the publishing of music books in the process of Shanghai's urbanization. The discussion on the topic is based on the following two points:1, As culture cause, Shanghai music publishing business have great significance on the professional music education and academic research, the promotion and the spread of public music accomplishment, and the development of urban music culture.2, As culture business, Shanghai music publishing business produces great value in the economic development of the city.The essay consists of six parts. The introduction summarizes the whole developing process of Shanghai music publishing business. In chapter I, the author sums up the developing process of the example---Shanghai music publishing house. Chapter II deals with the collected booklists, analyzes the relationship of the market and the consumers of music books from different inspects as prices, topics, binding, printing amounts and the import of new books. In chapter III, the author considers the interrelation between Shanghai music publishing house and its social and cultural environment from various angles of culture, economy, policy, science and technology, and copyright. Chapter IV summarizes other music houses in Shanghai, and analyzes the problems existing in the publishing business. Then come to the conclusion of the essay.The essay uses the theories and methods of ethnomusicology analyzes and studies the social function of Shanghai music publishing business. Starting from a case study, the discussion goes from the shallower to the deeper, from the easier to the more advanced, and uses first-hand materials obtained from on-the spot interviews, and develops on the basis of other historical references.
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