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Folk music --- Folk songs, Chinese --- Folk songs, Chinese --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- China --- History
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Popular songs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China form a rich and intriguing body of materials hardly studied so far in the English-speaking world. This book is about these songs and their impact on Chinese culture and literary practice. It examines the tapestry books in which popular songs circulated, how books shaped readers, how books were shaped by a range of literacies, and how arrangements of performance-texts aided imitation and selection of words or phrases. Publishing histories of the popular song collections bring to light how songs were duplicated for readers among the elite and sub-elite. The analysis of how popular songs bring together the "high" and the "low" is of special value for literary scholars and intellectual historians, and challenges the traditonal dichotomy between elite and popular culture.
Folk poetry, Chinese --- Folk songs, Chinese --- History and criticism
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When itinerant singers from China's countryside become iconic artists, worlds collide. The lives and performances of these 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 Wang Xiangrong and explores how itinerant performers come to serve as representative symbols straddling different groups, connecting diverse audiences, and sifting between amorphous, place-based local, regional, and national identities. Moving from place to place, these border walkers embody connections between a range of localities, presenting audiences with traditional, modern, rural, and urban identities in an evolving world. Born in a small mountain village near the intersection of the Great Wall and the Yellow River in a border region with a rich history of migration, Wang Xiangrong was exposed to a wide range of songs as a child. During the course of a career that included meeting Deng Xiaoping in 1980 and running with the Olympic torch in 2008, Wang's life, songs, and performances have come to highlight various facets of social identity in contemporary China. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Song King argues that song kings and queens fuse personal and collective narratives in performances of iconic songs and provide audiences with compelling models for socializing personal experience, negotiating a sense of self and group in an ever-changing world. -- Back cover.
Folk songs, Chinese --- Folk singers --- History and criticism --- Wang, Xiangrong,
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Folk art --- Folk music --- Folk songs, Chinese --- Paper work
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Folk poetry, Chinese --- Folk songs, Chinese --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.
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Folk poetry, Chinese --- History and criticism --- Folk songs, Chinese --- Analysis, appreciation.
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Folk music --- Folk songs, Chinese --- Hakka (Chinese people) --- Taiwan aborigines --- History and criticism --- Music
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Mountain Songs is a collection of folk songs edited by the famous writer Feng Menglong (1574-1646). By this innovative work - mainly written in the Suzhou dialect - he aimed to revitalize poetry through the power of popular songs. This collection is very significant to the understanding of the characters of the mobile society of Jiangnan and the vitality of its intellectual world. The songs deal with the lives of common people: women, often prostitutes, boatmen, peasants, hunters, fishers and paddlers. Their spirit is far from the orthodox moral intents that Zhu Xi advocated for interpreting the Shijing, and their language is often vulgar and full of crude expressions or salacious double meanings and contains allusions to sexual and erotic behaviour.
Folk music --- Folk songs, Chinese --- Love songs --- History and criticism. --- Feng, Menglong, --- History and criticism
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Folk music --- Folk songs, Chinese --- Love songs --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Feng, Menglong,
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This collection of 97 Cantonese love songs aims to give a wider audience the opportunity of reading these songs in English. The author investigates the language and social background of the songs and provides cross-references to Chinese and Western literature.
Folk poetry, Chinese --- Folk songs, Chinese --- Chinese folk songs --- Chinese folk poetry --- Folk songs, English --- Chinese poetry --- English ballads and songs --- English folk songs
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