Song King : : Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China / / Levi S. Gibbs; ed. by Frederick Lau.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 28 b&w illustrations, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Song King as Medium
  • CHAPTER 1. The Meanings of a Life
  • CHAPTER 2. An Education through Song
  • CHAPTER 3. Representing the Region
  • CHAPTER 4. Culture Paves the Way
  • CHAPTER 5. Mediating the Rural and Urban
  • CHAPTER 6. Between Here and There
  • CHAPTER 7. Connecting Past, Present, and Future
  • Epilogue: Global Song Kings and Queens
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index