Song King
Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16995293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Levi S Gibbs (corresponding author) |
| Editors | Frederick Lau |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 336 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Song King (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780824876029 |
| OpenAlex | W4251213967 |
| ISBN | 9780824876029 |
| Open Library | OL29367888M |
| Language | EN |
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. 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
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · Geography · Chemistry · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Chinese Folk songs · Folk singers · Folk songs · Folk songs, chinese · Folk songs, history and criticism · History and criticism · Singers
| Highly cited | No |
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