Huju - Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai

Zusatztext Jonathan Stock has made a valuable contribution to the field of Chinese music studies in particular and to musicology in general. Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Stock lectures in music at the University of Sheffield where he establishd the ethnomusicology programme, and is past Chairman of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. He has been awarded a Westrup Prize for a recent article (2002) that appeared in Music and Letters Klappentext Stock's study offers the first book-length account of Huju, a Shanghai operatic tradition which blends music and acting with portrayal of the lives of ordinary people. Richly informed by first-hand accounts, the book follows the genre as it develops in China's largest city from rural entertainment to urban ballad, revolutionary drama, and contemporary opera. An innovative combination of urban and historical ethnomusicology, the book will engage the historian of China and general scholar of music alike. Zusammenfassung An account of Huju, a Shanghai operatic tradition which blends music and acting with portrayal of the lives of ordinary people, this study follows the genre as it develops in China's largest city from rural entertainment to urban ballad, revolutionary drama, and contemporary opera. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Rise of Local Opera form in east China, up to 1920 Female roles and the Rise of Actresses, 1915-c.1950 Place and Music: Local Opera in Shanghai, 1912-49 Huju and the politics of revolution, post-1949 Ethnomusicological Research in an Urban Setting

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan P. J. Stock, Jonathan P. J. ( Stock, Jonathan P. J. (Lecturer in Music Stock
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2003
• EAN: 9780197262733
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726273-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: British Academy Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); China, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, Theory of music & musicology, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"