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Lost sound: Singing, theater, and aesthetics in late Ming China, 1547-1644.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Lost sound: Singing, theater, and aesthetics in late Ming China, 1547-1644./
Author:	Xu, Peng.
Description:	233 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-11A(E).
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3628102
ISBN:	9781321036237

Lost sound: Singing, theater, and aesthetics in late Ming China, 1547-1644.
Xu, Peng.

Lost sound: Singing, theater, and aesthetics in late Ming China, 1547-1644. - 233 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The late Ming era witnessed an unusual blossoming of singing culture. To open a window into the age in which most people sang, my dissertation remodels the cultural activity of "singing theater" (or changxi in Chinese) as an aesthetic object, unpacks its characteristics, and proposes a new reading scheme centered on singing and song. By investigating a broad range of written and visual materials for information about operatic singing, I investigate how singing exerted tangible effects on both the everyday lives of people in the late Ming and on the performing lives of chuanqi plays, the most popular genre of the time.

ISBN: 9781321036237Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122707
Asian literature.

Lost sound: Singing, theater, and aesthetics in late Ming China, 1547-1644.
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520 $a Premodern Chinese vocal history and aesthetics have been sparsely researched, and previous studies of Chinese cultural history have paid scant attention to the issue of singing. This dissertation shows instead that the late Ming passion for singing and its forgotten aesthetics illuminate a significant and adjacent reception/consumption mode of drama in parallel with the more familiar ones such as silent reading and theater spectatorship. By the same logic, singing as a medium for theater generated new meaning for the play text that differed from either plain reading or full-fledged theatrical performance. To gain insight into the perspective and practice of singers of the period, I use hybrid sources that encompass a great variety of visual and written genres. I also examine some rare full-length drama editions that arguably demonstrate singer-oriented editorial features. My dissertation consequently contributes to an increased understanding of the little-known social group of professional singing teachers, the training of their courtesan students, and different models of operatic singing and their distinct aesthetics.
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