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Song King: Tradition, Social Change, and the Contemporary Art of a Northern Shaanxi Folksinger
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Gibbs, Levi Samuel
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1371429829
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, East Asian Languages and Literatures.
Abstract
This dissertation explores the life and songs of the “Folksong King of Western China,” Wang Xiangrong, looking at how both elements are intricately tied to social changes in China during the last few decades. Building on extensive fieldwork and interviews with Wang and other folksingers from northern Shaanxi province, it shows how a “traditional” art form has interacted with and been affected by economic development, new media forms, government policies, commercialization of art, TV singing contests, and the rise of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) preservation. At the same time, it gives voice to an individual’s interpretation of that tradition (an individual who has been declared one of two “national bearers” of ICH for this tradition), thus personalizing the tradition within its broader social and historical context. By fusing together both performer-centered and tradition-centered approaches to oral literature, the songs and the speeches surrounding them are shown as serving to negotiate relations with real people, imagined characters, and gods from the past, present, and future.
Committee
Mark Bender (Advisor)
Meow Hui Goh (Committee Member)
Kirk Denton (Committee Member)
Ray Cashman (Committee Member)
Pages
356 p.
Subject Headings
Asian Literature
;
Asian Studies
;
Biographies
;
Cultural Resources Management
;
Folklore
;
Music
;
Performing Arts
Keywords
Wang Xiangrong
;
folksinger
;
folksong
;
China
;
northern Shaanxi
;
celebrity
;
life story
;
social change
;
drinking songs
;
songs
;
folk belief
;
relationship management
;
A Bao
;
He Yutang
;
lyric song
;
individual
;
tradition
;
culture market
;
song contest
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Gibbs, L. S. (2013).
Song King: Tradition, Social Change, and the Contemporary Art of a Northern Shaanxi Folksinger
[Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1371429829
APA Style (7th edition)
Gibbs, Levi.
Song King: Tradition, Social Change, and the Contemporary Art of a Northern Shaanxi Folksinger.
2013. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1371429829.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Gibbs, Levi. "Song King: Tradition, Social Change, and the Contemporary Art of a Northern Shaanxi Folksinger." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1371429829
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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