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The Sounds of Social Space : Branding, Built Environment, and Leisure in Urban China / Paul Kendall.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (218 p.) : 10 b&w illustrations, 1 mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824877705
  • 9780824877804
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.760951/34 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one. Fieldwork and Theory -- Chapter two. The Production of a Tourist City -- Chapter three. Locating Cultural Authenticity -- Chapter four. Relocation, Rhythm, and Stability -- Chapter five. Music, Difference, and Lived Space -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: A giant statue of a six-pipe musical instrument stands in the heart of Kaili city. Yet despite its prominent placement, intended to convey the essence of the city, residents hold extremely low opinions of music-making in Kaili, particularly when compared to the "authentic" music found in surrounding ethnic minority villages. In this engaging, accessible work, author Paul Kendall investigates this conundrum and comes to terms with conflicting representations of a small southwestern Chinese city branded "the homeland of one hundred festivals."Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's triad of social space, the book explores the relationship between Kaili's branding, built environment, and everyday life: how China's post-Mao built environment hinders and hides everyday music-making, even in a tourist destination for ethnic music; how residents themselves deny or downplay the existence of ethnic music in the city, despite the government's efforts to promote it; how amateur musicians have constructed generational hierarchies of musical practice within a shifting cityscape. Kendall argues that increased focus on the small city helps counter a tendency to conceive China as either timeless village or futuristic metropolis and enables a more comprehensive understanding of the urban experience, both in China and beyond. He shows that many Kaili inhabitants recognize not only a rural-urban divide-long a dominant geographical notion of China-but also a more complex conceptualization of village, small city, and big city.By interweaving theories of authenticity with an innovative interpretation of space, Kendall shows how the category of "fake" minority emerged from this small city as a surprisingly positive form of self-identification, suggesting that there are ways of not being ethnic, even in often-exoticized southwest China. The Sounds of Social Space makes a distinctive contribution across a range of disciplinary interests, including Chinese studies, urban studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one. Fieldwork and Theory -- Chapter two. The Production of a Tourist City -- Chapter three. Locating Cultural Authenticity -- Chapter four. Relocation, Rhythm, and Stability -- Chapter five. Music, Difference, and Lived Space -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

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A giant statue of a six-pipe musical instrument stands in the heart of Kaili city. Yet despite its prominent placement, intended to convey the essence of the city, residents hold extremely low opinions of music-making in Kaili, particularly when compared to the "authentic" music found in surrounding ethnic minority villages. In this engaging, accessible work, author Paul Kendall investigates this conundrum and comes to terms with conflicting representations of a small southwestern Chinese city branded "the homeland of one hundred festivals."Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's triad of social space, the book explores the relationship between Kaili's branding, built environment, and everyday life: how China's post-Mao built environment hinders and hides everyday music-making, even in a tourist destination for ethnic music; how residents themselves deny or downplay the existence of ethnic music in the city, despite the government's efforts to promote it; how amateur musicians have constructed generational hierarchies of musical practice within a shifting cityscape. Kendall argues that increased focus on the small city helps counter a tendency to conceive China as either timeless village or futuristic metropolis and enables a more comprehensive understanding of the urban experience, both in China and beyond. He shows that many Kaili inhabitants recognize not only a rural-urban divide-long a dominant geographical notion of China-but also a more complex conceptualization of village, small city, and big city.By interweaving theories of authenticity with an innovative interpretation of space, Kendall shows how the category of "fake" minority emerged from this small city as a surprisingly positive form of self-identification, suggesting that there are ways of not being ethnic, even in often-exoticized southwest China. The Sounds of Social Space makes a distinctive contribution across a range of disciplinary interests, including Chinese studies, urban studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)