A Performance History Of Cantonese Opera In San Francisco From Gold Rush To The Earthquake

Author : Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252099007

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Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao Pdf

The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre “World War II era. But its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted diverse patrons into Chinese American communities Drawing on a wealth of new Chinese- and English-language research, Nancy Yunhwa Rao tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. Rao unmasks a backstage world of performers, performance, and repertoire and sets readers in the spellbound audiences beyond the footlights. But she also braids a captivating and complex history from elements outside the opera house walls: the impact of government immigration policy; how a theater influenced a Chinatown's sense of cultural self; the dissemination of Chinese opera music via recording and print materials; and the role of Chinese American business in sustaining theatrical institutions. The result is a work that strips the veneer of exoticism from Chinese opera, placing it firmly within the bounds of American music and a profoundly American experience.

Author : Mary Ingraham,Joseph So,Roy Moodley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317444831

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Opera in a Multicultural World by Mary Ingraham,Joseph So,Roy Moodley Pdf

Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals their approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, as well as the ambiguities and contradictions that occur across the time and place(s) of their performance. This collection brings academic researchers in opera studies into conversation with previously unheard voices of performers, critics, and creators to speak to issues of race, ethnicity, and culture in the genre. Together, they deliver a powerful critique of the perpetuation of the values and practices of dominant cultures in operatic representations of intercultural encounters. Essays accordingly cross methodological boundaries in order to focus on a central issue in the emerging field of coloniality: the hierarchies of social and political power that include the legacy of racialized practices. In theorizing coloniality through intercultural exchange in opera, authors explore a range of topics and case studies that involve immigrant, indigenous, exoticist, and other cultural representations and consider a broad repertoire that includes lesser-known Canadian operas, Chinese- and African-American performances, as well as works by Haydn, Strauss, Puccini, and Wagner, and in performances spanning three continents and over two centuries. In these ways, the collection contributes to the development of a more integrated understanding of the interdisciplinary fields inherent in opera, including musicology, sociology, anthropology, and others connected to Theatre, Gender, and Cultural Studies.

Author : Janelle G. Reinelt,Joseph R. Roach
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Theater
ISBN : 0472068865

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Critical Theory and Performance by Janelle G. Reinelt,Joseph R. Roach Pdf

Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance

Author : Annette Ke-Lee Hu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Opera
ISBN : UCAL:X53529

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A Performance History of Cantonese Opera in San Francisco from Gold Rush to the Earthquake by Annette Ke-Lee Hu Pdf

Author : D. Lei
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137061638

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Operatic China by D. Lei Pdf

In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and transnational and diasporic studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Dance
ISBN : IND:30000047498161

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Directory of Doctoral Programs in Theatre Studies, Performance Studies, and Dance, U.S.A. and Canada by Anonim Pdf

Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
ISBN : IND:30000098611548

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Index of Bicentennial Activities by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration Pdf

Author : Bell Yung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989-05-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521305063

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Cantonese Opera by Bell Yung Pdf

This book examines Cantonese opera, one of the grandest of the traditional musical theatres in China.

Author : Wing Chung Ng
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252097096

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The Rise of Cantonese Opera by Wing Chung Ng Pdf

Defined by its distinct performance style, stage practices, and regional and dialect based identities, Cantonese opera originated as a traditional art form performed by itinerant companies in temple courtyards and rural market fairs. In the early 1900s, however, Cantonese opera began to capture mass audiences in the commercial theaters of Hong Kong and Guangzhou--a transformation that changed it forever. Wing Chung Ng charts Cantonese opera's confrontations with state power, nationalist discourses, and its challenge to the ascendancy of Peking opera as the country's preeminent "national theatre." Mining vivid oral histories and heretofore untapped archival sources, Ng relates how Cantonese opera evolved from a fundamentally rural tradition into urbanized entertainment distinguished by a reliance on capitalization and celebrity performers. He also expands his analysis to the transnational level, showing how waves of Chinese emigration to Southeast Asia and North America further re-shaped Cantonese opera into a vibrant part of the ethnic Chinese social life and cultural landscape in the many corners of a sprawling diaspora.

Author : Alan Gevinson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1588 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Minorities in motion pictures
ISBN : 0520209648

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Within Our Gates by Alan Gevinson Pdf

"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393346374

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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon Pdf

Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers. We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos—the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl—but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps. Accompanied by more than one hundred images—many of them previously unseen and some formerly suppressed—Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted historians of our time. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; a New York Times Notable Book; New Yorker's A Year's Reading; and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989-11
Category : Dance
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010607369

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Attitudes & Arabesques by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carolyn Grattan Eichin
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781948908375

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From San Francisco Eastward by Carolyn Grattan Eichin Pdf

Finalist for the 2021 Willa Literary Award in Scholarly Non-Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Will Rogers Medallion Award in Western Non-Fiction Carolyn Grattan Eichin’s From San Francisco Eastward explores the dynamics and influence of theater in the West during the Victorian era. San Francisco, Eichin argues, served as the nucleus of the western theatrical world, having attained prominence behind only New York and Boston as the nation’s most important theatrical center by 1870. By focusing on the West’s hinterland communities, theater as a capitalist venture driven by the sale of cultural forms is illuminated against the backdrop of urbanization. Using the vagaries of the West’s notorious boom-bust economic cycles, Eichin traces the fiscal, demographic, and geographic influences that shaped western theater. With an emphasis on the 1860s and 70s, this thoroughly researched work uses distinct notions of ethnicity, class, and gender to examine a cultural institution driven by a market economy. From San Francisco Eastward is a thorough analysis of the ever-changing theatrical personalities and strategies that shaped Victorian theater in the West, and the ways in which theater as a business transformed the values of a region.

Author : Kevin Starr,Stanford University. Libraries
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : California
ISBN : UOM:39015047138352

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Sunset Magazine by Kevin Starr,Stanford University. Libraries Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3310 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015054057792

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Subject Guide to Books in Print by Anonim Pdf