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Silent Pasts and a Reconfigured Present in Histories of Chinese (New) Opera

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Silent Pasts and a Reconfigured Present in Histories of Chinese (New) Opera
المؤلفون: Annie Yen-Ling Liu
المصدر: Musica Docta, Vol 14, Pp 61-66 (2024)
بيانات النشر: University of Bologna, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Music and books on Music
LCC:Musical instruction and study
مصطلحات موضوعية: opera, chinese opera, peking opera, chineseness, dramaturgy, Music and books on Music, Musical instruction and study, MT1-960
الوصف: The ‘New Chinese Opera’, which emerged in the 1940s, has become a significant part of the performance repertoire, a ‘hot’ research topic and an indispensable subject of historical surveys of Chinese music. The subject matter of these operas ranges from historical events (as in Honghu Red Guards of 1958) to stories drawn from classic Chinese novels (as in Camel Xiangzi of 2014). Critical and aesthetic reception has focused on the dominance of realistic subject matter in this form and the concern of its producers to reach a wide audience. This emphasis on the marketability of art reflects how deeply rooted secularisation and utility are in contemporary Chinese culture. This paper examines a third theme of aesthetic discourse that is particularly present in historical narratives of Chinese opera: the struggle to distance Chinese opera from Western models. The image of ‘opera’ that emerges in these accounts reconfigures the form for contemporary use, with the result that the history of Western opera as an agent is absent - or, in the case of dramaturgical models and influences, distorted.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: German
English
Spanish; Castilian
French
Italian
تدمد: 2039-9715
Relation: https://musicadocta.unibo.it/article/view/20904; https://doaj.org/toc/2039-9715
DOI: 10.6092/issn.2039-9715/20904
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/46a6414795c34b698f774a74b51d9afb
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.46a6414795c34b698f774a74b51d9afb
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20399715
DOI:10.6092/issn.2039-9715/20904