ABSTRACT
Chou Wen-chung is often considered one of the major composers of East–West fusion music. Born and raised in mid-twentieth century China, he spent his formative years in Boston and New York where he studied and later taught composition. The objective of this chapter is to frame Chou as a product of his own agency and his approach to composition as an “interplay of ideas and cultures.” I argue that Chou’s approaches to composition are creative responses to and virtuosic dialogues with the specificities of his encounters and contexts.
