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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780824876029
035 _a(DE-B1597)513275
035 _a(OCoLC)1031468799
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072 7 _aMUS015000
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082 0 4 _a782.42162/951009
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aGibbs, Levi S.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSong King :
_bConnecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China /
_cLevi S. Gibbs; ed. by Frederick Lau.
264 1 _aHonolulu :
_bUniversity of Hawaii Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (336 p.) :
_b28 b&w illustrations, 1 map
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aMusic and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Song King as Medium --
_tCHAPTER 1. The Meanings of a Life --
_tCHAPTER 2. An Education through Song --
_tCHAPTER 3. Representing the Region --
_tCHAPTER 4. Culture Paves the Way --
_tCHAPTER 5. Mediating the Rural and Urban --
_tCHAPTER 6. Between Here and There --
_tCHAPTER 7. Connecting Past, Present, and Future --
_tEpilogue: Global Song Kings and Queens --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aWhen itinerant singers from China's countryside become iconic artists, worlds collide. The lives and performances of these representative singers become sites for conversations between the rural and urban, local and national, folk and elite, and traditional and modern. In Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China, Levi S. Gibbs examines the life and performances of "Folksong King of Western China" Wang Xiangrong (b. 1952) and explores how itinerant performers come to serve as representative symbols straddling different groups, connecting diverse audiences, and shifting between amorphous, place-based local, regional, and national identities. Moving from place to place, these border walkers embody connections between a range of localities, presenting audiences with traditional, modern, rural, and urban identities among which to continually reposition themselves in an evolving world.Born in a small mountain village near the intersection of the Great Wall and the Yellow River in a border region with a rich history of migration, Wang Xiangrong was exposed to a wide range of songs as a child. The songs of Wang's youth prepared him to create a repertoire of region-representing pieces and mediate between regions, nations, and multinational corporations in national and international performances. During the course of a career that included meeting Deng Xiaoping in 1980 and running with the Olympic torch in 2008, Wang's life, songs, and performances have come to highlight various facets of social identity in contemporary China. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with Wang and other professional folksingers from northern Shaanxi province at weddings, Chinese New Year galas, business openings, and Christmas concerts, Song King argues that songs act as public conversations people can join in on. As song kings and queens fuse personal and collective narratives in performances of iconic songs, they provide audiences with compelling models for socializing personal experience, negotiating a sense of self and group in an ever-changing world.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aFolk singers
_zChina.
650 0 _aFolk songs, Chinese
_xHistory and criticism.
650 7 _aMUSIC / Ethnomusicology.
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700 1 _aLau, Frederick
_ecuratore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780824876029
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824876029
856 4 2 _3Cover
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