Levi S Gibbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 713467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Levi S Gibbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Levi S |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbs |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBS L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Improvised songs of praise and group sociality in contemporary Chinese banquet culture
Going Beyond the Western Pass
From the early Qing dynasty (1644–1911) to the beginning of the People’s Republic, men in northern China from drought-prone regions of northwestern Shanxi province and northeastern Shaanxi province would travel beyond the Great Wall to find work in western Inner Mongolia, in a migration known as “going beyond the Western Pass” 走西口. This article analyzes anthologized song lyrics and ethnographic interviews about this migration to explore how songs…
Song King
When 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. 195…
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts
The following introduces a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (55–1) examining the roles played by individuals in the development of traditional Chinese performing arts and how "faces of tradition" have come to represent and reconfigure broader fields of cultural production. The authors look at the performance, scholarship, and teaching of instrumental music, folksong, and classical dance, focusing on ways in which CD albums, singi…
Chinese Singing Contests as Sites of Negotiation Among Individuals and Traditions
This article explores the function of Chinese singing competitions as "mechanisms of traditionalization" where singers, judges, and other individuals interact with and reconfigure performance traditions. Focusing on case studies of professional folksingers from northern China who became famous after appearing on national singing competitions, I argue that participating in contests not only raises the status of individual performers, but also repo…
Reinventing Chinese Tradition
Book Review| July 01 2017 Reinventing Chinese Tradition: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism Reinventing Chinese Tradition: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism. By Ka-ming Wu. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Pp. Levi S. Gibbs Levi S. Gibbs Dartmouth College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2017) 130 (517): 361–365. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.130.517.0361 Cite Icon…
Going Beyond the Western Pass
From the early Qing dynasty (1644–1911) to the beginning of the People’s Republic, men in northern China from drought-prone regions of northwestern Shanxi province and northeastern Shaanxi province would travel beyond the Great Wall to find work in western Inner Mongolia, in a migration known as “going beyond the Western Pass” 走西口. This article analyzes anthologized song lyrics and ethnographic interviews about this migration to explore how songs…
Improvised songs of praise and group sociality in contemporary Chinese banquet culture
Chinese Singing Contests as Sites of Negotiation Among Individuals and Traditions
This article explores the function of Chinese singing competitions as "mechanisms of traditionalization" where singers, judges, and other individuals interact with and reconfigure performance traditions. Focusing on case studies of professional folksingers from northern China who became famous after appearing on national singing competitions, I argue that participating in contests not only raises the status of individual performers, but also repo…
Reinventing Chinese Tradition
Book Review| July 01 2017 Reinventing Chinese Tradition: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism Reinventing Chinese Tradition: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism. By Ka-ming Wu. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Pp. Levi S. Gibbs Levi S. Gibbs Dartmouth College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2017) 130 (517): 361–365. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.130.517.0361 Cite Icon…
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts
The following introduces a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (55–1) examining the roles played by individuals in the development of traditional Chinese performing arts and how "faces of tradition" have come to represent and reconfigure broader fields of cultural production. The authors look at the performance, scholarship, and teaching of instrumental music, folksong, and classical dance, focusing on ways in which CD albums, singi…
Chinese Singing Contests as Sites of Negotiation Among Individuals and Traditions
This article explores the function of Chinese singing competitions as "mechanisms of traditionalization" where singers, judges, and other individuals interact with and reconfigure performance traditions. Focusing on case studies of professional folksingers from northern China who became famous after appearing on national singing competitions, I argue that participating in contests not only raises the status of individual performers, but also repo…
Song King
When 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. 195…
Improvised songs of praise and group sociality in contemporary Chinese banquet culture
Going Beyond the Western Pass
From the early Qing dynasty (1644–1911) to the beginning of the People’s Republic, men in northern China from drought-prone regions of northwestern Shanxi province and northeastern Shaanxi province would travel beyond the Great Wall to find work in western Inner Mongolia, in a migration known as “going beyond the Western Pass” 走西口. This article analyzes anthologized song lyrics and ethnographic interviews about this migration to explore how songs…
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