Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts (eBook)

Levi S. Gibbs (Herausgeber)

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2020
188 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04585-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts examines the key role of the individual in the development of traditional Chinese performing arts such as music and dance. The contributors to this volume explore the ways in which performances and recordings, including singing competitions, textual anthologies, ethnographic videos, and CD albums, serve as discursive spaces where individuals engage with and redefine larger traditions and themselves.

1. This collection looks at how the "emergence of the individual" in post-Mao China has played out in the field of performing arts. It is a journal spin-off with a revised introduction. In addition, Chapter 5 is new material and the writers have added a glossary of Chinese terms.

2. It explores five case studies where individuals and their creations have become "faces" of Chinese performance traditions. Explores specific ways in which individuals and performing arts traditions interact, an important topic in recent years among the disciplines of ethnomusicology, folklore studies, and dance ethnology.

3. It is edited by up-and-coming scholars who have contributed to IUP's "Chinese Folklore Studies Today" edited volume.

Autoren

Levi S. Gibbs is Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the social roles of singers and songs in contemporary China and the cultural politics of regional identity. He is author of Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China.

Charlotte D'Evelyn is Visiting Professor of Music at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. Her research focuses on fiddles, regional folk song, and the politics of heritage in Inner Mongolia, and she is a performer of the Chinese erhu (two-string fiddle) and an active student of the morin huur (Mongolian horse-head fiddle), tovshur (plucked lute), and höömii (throat singing).

Levi S. Gibbs is Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the social roles of singers and songs in contemporary China and the cultural politics of regional identity. He is author of Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China.

Helen Rees is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since the late 1980s her field and archival research has focused on ritual and other traditional musical genres of southwest China and Shanghai. She also interprets and presents for Chinese artists at major European and US arts festivals. She is author of Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China and editor of Lives in Chinese Music.

Sue Tuohy is a faculty member in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and adjunct faculty in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. She has conducted research on and in China for over three decades on music and society in northwest China, cultural heritage programs, music in social movements, and environmentalism.

Emily E. Wilcox is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. She is a specialist in Chinese dance and performance culture, with broader interests in twentieth-century global history, transnationalism, gender, and social movements, and is author of Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy.

Levi S. Gibbs is Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the social roles of singers and songs in contemporary China and the cultural politics of regional identity. He is author of Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts / Levi S. Gibbs
1. Grasping Intangible Heritage and Reimagining Inner Mongolia: Folk-Artist Albums and a New Logic for Musical Representation in China / Charlotte D'Evelyn
2. Chinese Singing Contests as Site of Negotiation Among Individuals and Traditions / Levi S. Gibbs
3. Dynamic Inheritance: Representative Works and the Authoring of Tradition in Chinese Dance / Emily E. Wilcox
4. Collecting Flowers, Defining a Genre: Zhang Yaxiong and the Anthology of Hua'er Folksongs / Sue Tuohy
5. From Field Recordings to Ethnographically Informed CDs: Curating the Sounds of Yunnan for a Niche Foreign Market / Helen Rees
Glossary of Chinese Terms and Phrases
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.2.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
• Reihe/Serie: Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
• Zusatzinfo: 7 b&w illus., 1 map, 1 table
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthology of Hua’er Folksongs • CD • Charlotte D’Evelyn • China • Chinese • Chinese Performing Arts • Chinese Singing Contests • Dance • Emily E. Wilcox • ethnography • Folk • Folk Art • Folk-Artist • Folk-Artist Albums • Helen Rees • Hua’er • Hua’er Folksongs • Inner Mongolia • intangible heritage • Levi S. Gibbs • Mongolia • music • performing arts • Singing • Song • Songs • Sound • Sue Tuohy • Theater • Tradition • Yunnan • Zhang Yaxiong
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04585-1 / 0253045851
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04585-0 / 9780253045850