Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts

Special Issue “Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts”
Journal of Folklore Research 55.1 Special Issue

A special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research entitled “Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts” is now available! Articles in the issue look at ways in which particular areas of cultural production, such as CD albums, singing competitions, representative works, and textual anthologies, come to serve as discursive spaces where individuals engage with and redefine larger traditions and themselves. Below, please find the table of contents and see the link for more information:

Volume 55, Number 1, January-April 2018

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jfolkrese.55.issue-1

INTRODUCTION

“Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts,” by Levi S. Gibbs, pp. 1-19

ARTICLES

“Grasping Intangible Heritage and Reimagining Inner Mongolia: Folk-Artist Albums and a New Logic for Musical Representation in China,” by Charlotte D’Evelyn, pp. 21-48

“Chinese Singing Contests as Sites of Negotiation Among Individuals and Traditions,” by Levi S. Gibbs, pp. 49-76

“Dynamic Inheritance: Representative Works and the Authoring of Tradition in Chinese Dance,” by Emily E. Wilcox, pp. 77-112

“Collecting Flowers, Defining a Genre: Zhang Yaxiong and the Anthology of Hua’er Folksongs,” by Sue Tuohy, pp. 113-149

Posted by Levi Gibbs <levi.s.gibbs@dartmouth.edu>

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