Song King - Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China

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.

About the author

Levi S. Gibbs is assistant professor of Chinese in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Levi Gibbs, Levi S Gibbs, Levi S. Gibbs
• Assisted by: Frederick Lau (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780824869908
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-6990-8
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Music and Performing Arts of A; Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific; Music and Performing Arts of A; Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Biografien: allgemein, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Music / Songbooks, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology